CORRELATES OF HOME DREAM RECALL - REPORTED HOME SLEEP CHARACTERISTICS AND HOME DREAM RECALL

A sleep and dream log was filled out by 55 young adult males for 14 consecutive days. A correlational analysis of 15 sleep and dream recall variables yielded results suggesting that detailed dream reports tend to come from end-of-the-night REM-period awakenings. while vague reports are probably associated with nocturnal awakenings with relatively long times back to sleep and no-content dream reports are derived from briefer nocturnal awakenings. Frequent detailed dream recallers (recallers), as compared with nonrecallers (Ss with infrequent detailed recall), took longer to get to sleep but were calmer before sleep, had less abrupt and more spontaneous terminal awakenings and reported feeling more refreshed on awakening. Abrupt awakenings tended to be associated with vague reports in recallers but with detailed reports in nonrecallers. On the basis of these findings, it was argued that recallers tended to awaken from REM sleep and nonrecallers from NREM sleep in the morning. No relationship was found between cognitive style and ease of dream recall in this sample of Ss. © 1969.