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Item Cognitive structure associated with the lucid features of gamers dreams(2013) Gackenbach, Jayne; Kuruvilla, BeenaIn a follow-up from Gackenbach and Kuruvilla (2008b), data analysis was undertaken examining the metacognitive qualities of video game players dreams associated with lucidity. Kahan and LaBerge’s (1994) MACE questionnaire responses were examined in a principle component factor analysis. Several factors loaded dream type and gaming variables along with items from the MACE. It was concluded that gaming may be associated with dream lucidity due to the enhanced problem solving quality of gamer’s dreams.Item Gamer links to dream bizarreness and lucidity: a failure to replicate(2014) Gackenbach, Jayne; Kuruvilla, Beena; Ferguson, Mary-Lynn; Mathewson, Keyfer; Darlington, MycahTwo studies examined the relationship between measures of video game play, dream bizarreness and dream type, with a conceptual emphasis on dream lucidity. The varimax rotated factor analyses with some variables of each type replicated across studies, showing no association between gaming, dream bizarreness and dream lucidity. Of additional interest is that the oft claimed association between dream bizarreness with lucidity was also not supported with one analysis showing a negative association. This may call into question methods of lucid dream induction that recommend attention to oddities while awake as practice to notice oddities in dreams as a way to get lucid in sleep.Item The relationship between video game play and threat simulation dreams(2008) Gackenbach, Jayne; Kuruvilla, BeenaRevonsuo proposes an evolutionary theory of dreaming in which dreams allow an individual to prepare for real world threats in the safety of the virtual setting of the dream world. Based upon previous work examining the dreams of video game players, it was hypothesized that high-end gamers would experience fewer threat simulation dreams due to frequent threat resolution rehearsal during game play. Subjects were asked to report a night before dream and fill out surveys regarding their gaming history, media use, and dream experiences. Using a factor analysis, support for the main hypothesis was found. Individuals with a history of game play experienced fewer threat severity variables in their dreams.Item Video game play and dream bizarreness(2009) Gackenbach, Jayne; Kuruvilla, Beena; Dopko, RaelyneIn a series of studies, Gackenbach has been mapping the effects of heavy video game play on consciousness including dreaming. The reason that gamers are being investigated is that they represent a group of people who are engaging in the most immersive media experience widely available today. With its audio and visual interactive nature as well as the long hours often required to master a game, they are an opportune group to study media effects upon consciousness. In this study, the focus was on dream bizarreness. Dream bizarreness has been variously thought to be the differentiator between waking and dreaming thought, an indication of creativity, and, most recently, as a model for solving the binding problem in consciousness. Using the Revonsuo and Salmivalli’s scale for dream content analysis it was found that high-end gamers evidenced more bizarre dreams than low-end gamers in two of three types of bizarreness categories.Item Video game play effects on dreams: self-evaluation and content analysis(2008) Kuruvilla, Beena; Gackenbach, JayneRecent dreams were collected over a year’s period from college undergraduates. In addition to providing self-evaluations of the dreams, participants were also asked to answer a variety of media use questions. These were both in terms of their media use the day before the dream and in terms of their historical media use with the most interactive and absorbing media available today, video games. High-end gamers’ dreams were content-analyzed using the Hall and Van de Castle system. These were compared to dreams from a similar population that were collected by interview but were not necessarily recent. There was some replication and some differences in these two different dream samples from individuals with the same gamer history. The second analysis examined day before electronic media use more specifically by loading all the gamer history and media use information with two types of dream variables: sum scores from the Hall and Van de Castle scale and self-evaluations of the dream. Seven of nine factors loaded some combination of media and dream content. This study further supports the idea that general electronic media use and game play in particular are affecting how we process and store information by demonstrating changes at the source of such processes, in dreams.Item Video game play: waking and dreaming consciousness(2009) Gackenbach, Jayne; Matty, I.; Kuruvilla, Beena; Samaha, A. N.; Zederayko, A.; Olischefski, J.; Von Stackelberg, HeatherThis book, 'Perchance to Dream: New Frontiers in Dreams and Dreaming', presents valuable research-based information, which encourages us to explore the powerful potential of dreams to contribute to growth, self-actualisation, and stability in our waking lives. Recognising and utilising the insights and lessons that may be found in our dreams may be one of the most enriching and life-enhancing actions we can take for ourselves.