Women have nightmares, and men dream about sex

A British researcher said women have more nightmares than men, but men tend to dream about sex more.

Psychologist Jennie Parker of the University of the West of England offered 100 women and 93 men aged 18 to 25 to fill in a dream log, giving words to participants before the dream happened. record. This research is in her doctoral project.

'My most important finding is that women in general experience more nightmares than men. Previous research on dreams also helped me discover that the process of dream study is often considered the structure of dreams, but there are many gaps in academic research to understand the meaning of contact. feel in dream analysis'.

Parker said the nightmares of women can be divided into three categories: scary dreams (chased or life-threatening), lost their loved ones, and chaotic dreams.

Parker corroborates the participants' dreams with real life experiences and discovers that anxiety about past events recurs many times as symbolic dreams.

She said: 'Dreams of this symbol have special meaning. When asking women how to describe the most meaningful dream they ever had, the tendency that they would report a nightmare of distractions was higher than that of men. Women recount more nightmares, and they also caused more emotional stress than the nightmares men face. '

Dreams about sex

Men 's dreams contain more indications of real sexual activity. According to Parker, men report more sexual activity while women only mention kissing or imagining a scene with their actors or dream characters.

Women's dreams also include more family members, containing more negative emotions, more indoor scenes and less physical aggression than men's dreams.

Women with nightmares (Photo: vtc.vn)

Men have many signs related to attacks, or serious threats, but they report less aggressive or verbal acts of aggression.The friendly behavior of men and women in dreams is the same, most of them recount that they dream of helping their dream characters.

The topic repeats

When comparing the interesting and unpleasant dreams of men and women, Parker found that men and women tend to become larger victims of aggressive interactions in uncomfortable dreams than pleasant dreams.

Parker said: 'In amusing dreams, dreamers often become aggressive. Women have more unpleasant dreams than men, and those dreams contain failure, self-destructive or unhappy '.

Researcher Susan Blackmore of the University of the West of England once had a lecture that gave Parker a moment of epiphany that inspired her to learn more about the 'material' of the dream.

'My own nightmares have two repetitive themes, one related to the image of me standing on the beach at West Super Mare, my hometown, when the tide suddenly surges rapidly and becomes a child. Big tidal waves seem to be engulfing me. Another nightmare is about a dinosaur roaming the city at night and looking at my window. I wonder if my experience is the same as other women ' .