Sleep and dream habits in a sample of French college students who report no sleep disorders

• DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12659
• Publication Date: 2018-02-06T06:33:01Z
• Authors: Raphael Vallat; Mickael Eskinazi; Alain Nicolas; Perrine Ruby
• Keywords: Sleep

Summary There is a lack of up‐to‐date data on sleep and dream habits college students. To fill in this gap, we used an online questionnaire sent to the student mailing lists two major universities Lyon (Lyon 1 2) for recruitment functional magnetic resonance imaging study with disorders as exclusion criteria. In sample (1,137 French students, 411 males, mean age = 22.2 ± 2.4 years, body mass index 22.0 3.2 kg m −2 ), average, participants reported spending about 8 hr bed during weekdays, 9 weekends, 90.9% them no difficulty falling asleep. Less than 0.4% students have sleep‐walking episodes regularly, but nearly 7% regular sleep‐talking episodes. The average recall frequency was 3 mornings per week mind. Dream positively correlated clarity content lucid dreaming, negatively age. Fourteen percent frequent dreams, 6% recurrent dreams. We found gender effect several parameters, including time bed, both which were higher women men. also observed differences between academic disciplines, namely humanities more sciences 1). These results confirm difference suggest link disciplines duration.