The influence of impactful dreams on self-perceptual depth and spiritual transformation

Dreaming

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 258-279

  Kuiken, Don ^a   Lee, Ming Ni ^a   Eng, Tracy ^a   Singh, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dream function; Existential dreams; Lucid dreams; Nightmares; Self perceptual depth; Spiritual transformation; Transcendent dreams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846079750     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1053-0797.16.4.258     Document Type: Article

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