In the article, “Aggression in Nightmares and Unpleasant Dreams and in People Reporting Recurrent Nightmares”, the authors, Patrick McNamara, April Minsky, Victoria Pae, Erica Harris, Edward Pace-Schott, and Sanford Auerbach, talked about a study preformed in order to test the hypothesis that aggression levels would vary significantly with content of nightmares and unpleasant dreams. They used unique data sets from Dream Board and Survey Monkey, asking participants to report reoccurring nightmares. Narrowing down their findings from 49,000 to 905, they labeled each remaining dream in specific categories: aggression, anxiety, and intimacy. They used scales to measure each of these categories in the dream, and also to detect the source, the type, and the targets of the aggression.
Aggressive dreams were scaled by The Aggressive Interactions Scale, developed by Hall and Van de Castle in 1996. It was used to record several different components of aggression: the initiator of the aggressive act, the subclass, as well as the victim. Once the dreams were deciphered and broken down, were then placed into eight more sub categories. They split them by ranging the amount of aggression present in the nightmare. Dreams placed in categories one through four were dreams that contained nonphysical aggression, dreams that were placed …show more content…
All responders were from the United States and 87% were Caucasian. 7% reported having nightmares on a daily basis, 23% reported a couple times a week, and 70% reported a couple times a month. The “couples times a month” category was divided pretty evenly among the male and female participants. Of the nightmares, 353 of the recorded dreams were females and 83 were posted by males. Of the unpleasant dreams 320 were posted by females, and 71 were posted by
Aggressive dreams were scaled by The Aggressive Interactions Scale, developed by Hall and Van de Castle in 1996. It was used to record several different components of aggression: the initiator of the aggressive act, the subclass, as well as the victim. Once the dreams were deciphered and broken down, were then placed into eight more sub categories. They split them by ranging the amount of aggression present in the nightmare. Dreams placed in categories one through four were dreams that contained nonphysical aggression, dreams that were placed …show more content…
All responders were from the United States and 87% were Caucasian. 7% reported having nightmares on a daily basis, 23% reported a couple times a week, and 70% reported a couple times a month. The “couples times a month” category was divided pretty evenly among the male and female participants. Of the nightmares, 353 of the recorded dreams were females and 83 were posted by males. Of the unpleasant dreams 320 were posted by females, and 71 were posted by