Age Differences in Dreams. II: Distortion and other Variables
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Aging & Human Development
- Vol. 13 (1) , 37-41
- https://doi.org/10.2190/41gu-p50q-faqa-xuj1
Abstract
Age-related change in manifest dream content was assessed in dreams recalled from REM sleep by fifty-eight men aged twenty-seven to sixty-four and in dreams recalled from sleep at home. There was evidence of a small age-related decline in dream distortion (bizarreness) and family-related content, with family-related content most prominent from ages thirty-five to fifty-five. Overall the effect of increasing age on dream content is slight.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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