研究表明夢(mèng)境可影響兩性關(guān)系

Nightmares about a partner cheating may indicate that a relationship is heading for trouble, according to a new study investigating the predictive value of dreams.

Researchers from the University of Maryland asked 61 participants aged 17 to 42 who had been dating someone for at least six months, to keep a journal detailing their dream and relationship activity over a two-week period.

Findings showed that images of jealously and arguing triggered next-day conflict between couples while visions of infidelity resulted in reduced love or intimacy.

Figuring things out: Dreams can be used to predict future relationship behavior according to a new study

Commenting on the outcome, lead researcher Dylan Selterman told the Huffington Post: 'A lot of people don’t pay attention to their dreams and are unaware of the impact they have on their state of mind.

'Now we have evidence that there is this association.'

When it came to sex dreams volunteers in good couplings spent the following days with a heightened sense of love and intimacy.

However, those had by people in weaker relationships had the opposite effect.

Explaining the trend, Dr Selterman said: 'We already know there’s a high correlation between sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction, this might be another manifestation of that.

'Sex can be good or bad in a dream in the same way that it can be good or bad in real life.'

He believes these correlations are the result of a psychological effect known as 'priming' - the idea that exposure to external stimuli

(sights, sounds, smells) brings certain thoughts to the top of people’s minds.

'[Dreams] have predictive value. People’s activity changes as a function of the dream they had the night before,' he wrote in the paper.

He apparently based the research, published earlier this month in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, on his own experience with a college girlfriend who would get angry with the way he behaved in her dreams.

A study earlier this year published in the journal Dreaming revealed that romantic partners feature in about 20per cent of people's dreams.

一項(xiàng)關(guān)于夢(mèng)境的預(yù)測(cè)價(jià)值的研究表明，夢(mèng)見(jiàn)伴侶出軌或許預(yù)示著關(guān)系將面臨危機(jī)。

據(jù)英國(guó)《每日郵報(bào)》5月16日?qǐng)?bào)道，馬里蘭大學(xué)的研究人員跟蹤調(diào)查了61位年齡在17到42歲之間的志愿者，觀察他們約會(huì)至少半年，并以?xún)尚瞧跒橹芷谠敿?xì)記錄他們的夢(mèng)境以及戀愛(ài)關(guān)系。

研究表明，夢(mèng)見(jiàn)嫉妒或者爭(zhēng)吵場(chǎng)景，會(huì)引發(fā)雙方第二天的矛盾，而不忠誠(chéng)的假想則會(huì)降低親密感。

研究負(fù)責(zé)人迪倫·賽爾特曼稱(chēng)，“很多人不重視夢(mèng)境，也沒(méi)有認(rèn)識(shí)到夢(mèng)對(duì)心情的影響?，F(xiàn)在我們有證據(jù)表明這兩者之間是有聯(lián)系的。”

如果夢(mèng)見(jiàn)性愛(ài)，關(guān)系良好的情侶會(huì)在未來(lái)幾天增強(qiáng)親密感;而關(guān)系不好的情侶效果正相反。賽爾特曼博士解釋說(shuō)：“性滿(mǎn)足與情感滿(mǎn)足之間有高度關(guān)聯(lián)性，我們的研究或許說(shuō)明了這一點(diǎn)。夢(mèng)中的性愛(ài)有好有壞，正如現(xiàn)實(shí)中性愛(ài)有好有壞一樣。”