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41 - Neuroimaging of sleep in the elderly
from Part 4 - Treatment of sleep disorders in the elderly
- By Eric A. Nofzinger
Edited by S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Jaime M. Monti, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, Andrew A. Monjan, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland
Book:

Principles and Practice of Geriatric Sleep Medicine

Published online:

04 August 2010

Print publication:

26 November 2009, pp 431-440
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Summary

Dream recall decreases with the age of the dreamer in both home and laboratory dreams in both men and women. As the dreamer ages, characters in the dream decrease, the dreamer is less likely to be the center of the dream action, and there are more family characters in the dream report. Social interactions in dreams are more commonly aggressive then friendly and least common are sexual interactions. Aggressive social interactions decreases as the dreamer grows older, while other aspects of the aggressive interactions such as witnessing, victim-hood, and the effect of the sex of the dreamer all change with the age of the dreamer. The style of dreaming changes with the age of the dreamer with men getting more passive in their dreams while women appear to get more active. Disorders of dreaming and specific dream contents, like dreams of lost resources, may well have diagnostic significance.