PERCEIVED LUCKINESS, STYLE OF COGNITION AND ABSORPTION, AND THEIR RELATION WITH PREMONITIONS IN DREAMS.

The main aim of this study was to examine the proportion of people in Argentina who claim to have had more than one premonition in a dream and to explore comparisons between them and those who report one or less premonitions on cognitive and perceptual variables. From 265 questionnaires 234 (88%) were completed. Along with demographic information these contained information based on premonition experiences, beliefs about luck, locus of control, cognitive style and absorption. Participants were classified as either Experients (i.e., > 1) or Controls (i.e., 1 or <). Comparisons between the two groups revealed that Experients were less intuitive compared to Controls but scored higher on absorption. However, Experients were not significantly higher on the locus of control or a measure assessing belief in luck. Overall, the results suggest that people who tend to have premonitions in dreams may be prone to high levels of absorption and may act to amplify minor somatic symptoms leading to an increased risk of conditions associated with hypersensitivity to internal bodily sensations, during which a person's contact with reality may be blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, in which many premonition experiences also may occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]