The impact of dream interpretation using psychological kinesiology on the frequency of recurring dreams

Psychother Psychosom. 1993;59(3-4):203-8. doi: 10.1159/000288665.

Abstract

Subjects reporting a recurring dream at least 4 times a month for a year or more were assigned to a dream recording control group and an experimental group which used muscle testing to guide dream interpretation. Dream frequency was recorded prior to and following a dream interpretation intervention (experimental subjects) or dream reporting session (control subjects). Dream frequency declined in the experimental group, suggesting that recurring dream frequency is a useful dependent variable, and that psychological kinesiology dream interpretation is a powerful intervention.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Dreams / psychology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Movement
  • Muscles / physiology
  • Psychoanalytic Interpretation*
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology