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One of Cartwright's studies concluded that a good night's sleep can cause the dreamer to wake up on the right side of the bed. She observed the dreams of 31 subjects who had major depression upon their first screening. Twenty-two of the 31 were found to be in remission upon followup with no need for treatment.Cartwright proposes that dreams diffuse the impact of otherwise disturbing emotions by matching them with similar experiences already stored in our long-term memory. Her own studies have shown that even when people go to bed angry or sad, their dreams can turn progressively more positive as the night wears on, allowing the person to wake up in a better mood. She has also built her theory on studies in which volunteers played virtual games and later associated the emotional situations in the games to experiences in their own lives. While they slept, volunteers reported pairing the virtual images with memories of similar emotional experiences. Cartwright concluded that this emotional matching process mitigates some of the negative feelings associated with the events.