Rorschach movement and dreams: A validation study using drug-induced dream-deprivation.

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Abstract
To test the hypotheses that dream deprivation would produce an increase in quantity of projected movement and a change in its quality in the direction of body-dissolution imagery, 20 Ss were tested with Holtzman inkblots before and after 2 nights of drug-induced dream deprivation. Their performance was compared with that of 30 non-dream-deprived controls. Results were significant in the predicted direction and were interpreted as offering support for Rorschach''s views on the fundamental similarity between movement and dreams due to the centrality of kinesthetic experience in both. Additional findings on space were congruent with Fonda''s view of space as resistance to internal, rather than external, forces. More specifically, in the present study, space was interpreted as resistance to movement.

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