Dream Recall
JOHN TRINDER PH.D.1, and
MILTON KRAMER M.D.2
1 Research Associate, Sleep Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, and with the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
2 Associate Professor, Sleep Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, and with the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
The authors investigated two related aspects of dream recall: the selection of dreams recalled in the morning and the representativeness of the content of morning reports of dreams. Their results indicated that several factors from classical memory theory play an important role in determining which dreams will be recalled in the morning and that dreams recalled in the morning are generally representative of the whole night's dreams. The authors also compare their results with those of other reports in the literature.
