QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE SCORES ON DREAM TEST

A quantitative Dream Test score is defined as the ratio of the number of the key dream words selected by a subject and given a plus sign to the number of the dream words given minus sign as is done on the Initi al-letter Word-association Test. The mean quantitative Dream Test scor e is 2+/3- with a slight prevalence of minus over plus signs and the m ean number of selected key dream words of 5. The qualitative Dream Tes t score was formulated to represent the dream categories and subcatego ries in which individual dreams are classified according to manifest d ream content. From a sample of 122 dreams reported by 122 women, stude nts in psychology (M age 20 yr.), dreams were categorized as Death (27 or 22.0%), Nightmares (53 or 43.1%), Love (35 or 28.3%), Atypical dre ams (7 or 5.7%), and No dreams (1 or .8%). The most frequent qualitati ve Dream Test score was for Nightmares which is in accord with the sli ght prevalence of minus over plus signs in the Dream Test mean quantit ative score.