Reports of cycles of dreams are projective documents which may be appraised in search of hypotheses about the inner dynamics of personality. Thirty such dream cycles of college students were analyzed by several judges and seemed to show consistent agreement with the postulated conflicts. Agreement between judges is interpreted as validating the method of analysis, but agreement with external criteria is more convincing. Rorschach results were not correctly matched with dream sketches, but other external validation is cited. The difficulties of validation by prediction or post-diction are discussed with a few examples. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)