Dreaming of white bears: The return of the suppressed at sleep onset

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 714-724

  Schmidt, Ralph E ^a   Gendolla, Guido H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Insomnia; Intrusive thought; Mental control; Sleep onset; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSOMNIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SLEEP; THINKING; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRESSION; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 47149104521     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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