School of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv 68182, Israel.
Statistical Education Unit, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv 68182, Israel.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 17;20(4):3534. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20043534.
Dream sharing is a universal practice, and various incentives have been identified, including emotional processing, emotional relief, and demands for containment. Shared dreams can contribute to an individual's understanding of social reality during traumatic and stressful events. The present study examined dreams shared on social network sites (SNS) during the first COVID-19 lockdown, applying a group-analytic approach. A qualitative dream content analysis conducted by a group of researchers analyzed 30 dreams shared on SNS, focusing on their contents, dominant emotions, and unique group processes. The dream content analysis yielded three meaningful and coherent themes: (1) dominant threats: enemy, danger, and COVID-19; (2) emotional fusion: confusion and despair alongside recovery and hope; and (3) group processes characterized by movement between being alone and being together. The results deepen our understanding of both unique social and psychological group processes and of people's main experiences and key psychological coping mechanisms in times of collective trauma and natural disasters. They also demonstrate the transformative potential of dreamtelling for individuals' coping experiences and building hope through the creative social relationships formed within SNS groups.
梦境分享是一种普遍的做法，其动机包括情绪处理、情感释放和需求的满足。在创伤和压力事件中，共享的梦境可以帮助个体更好地理解社会现实。本研究应用群体分析方法，考察了 COVID-19 封锁期间社交网站（SNS）上分享的梦境。一组研究人员对 SNS 上分享的 30 个梦境进行了定性的梦境内容分析，重点关注其内容、主导情绪和独特的群体过程。梦境内容分析产生了三个有意义且连贯的主题：（1）主导威胁：敌人、危险和 COVID-19；（2）情感融合：混乱和绝望，以及恢复和希望；（3）以孤独和相聚之间的移动为特征的群体过程。研究结果深化了我们对独特的社会和心理群体过程以及人们在集体创伤和自然灾害时期的主要经历和关键心理应对机制的理解。它们还展示了梦境讲述对于个体应对经验的变革潜力，以及通过 SNS 群体中形成的创造性社会关系建立希望的潜力。
