AUSTRIAN DREAM BEHAVIOR - RESULTS OF A REPRESENTATIVE POPULATION SURVEY

This study was based on a survey of a representative sample of 1000 Au strians who were questioned about their sleep and dream behavior. Abou t two-thirds of the respondents reported that they generally recalled at least one dream per month. Dream recall frequency decreased with ad vancing age, but did not differ between men and women. Fifty-five perc ent of the respondents characterized the affective content of their dr eams: 29% reported neutral 20% positive, and 6% negative dreams. Four percent of the sample reported suffering from nightmares. These respon dents more frequently reported snoring, interrupted sleep, daytime som nolence, anxiety and nervousness, depression, high dream recall, recur rent dreams, and dreaming in color. Twenty-six percent of the total sa mple reported that sometimes they realized during their dreams that th ey were dreaming. These respondents more frequently reported family pr oblems, high dream recall, positive dream content, recurrent dreams, d reaming in color, and nightmares.