Zitat:The Self never acted as aggressor in NREM dream states and was almost always the befriender in friendly interactions in NREM dreams.

Zitat:To select dreams to be analyzed we used exactly the same sampling procedures as McNamara et al. (2005). Briefly, the 200 sleep-mentation reports were selected in a semirandom fashion from the database of 1748 sleep and wake-mentation reports. The full database contained 894 waking (W) reports, 338 sleep onset (SO) reports, 269 REM reports, and 247 NREM reports. In order to approximate the overall normative values for the various Hall/Van de Castle content indicators, Domhoff (1996, pp. 65–66) determined that a minimum sample size of 100 reports is needed. We therefore pseudorandomly selected 100 REM and 100 from the overall Nightcap database and then calculated mean word count per dream for each of the two groups in an attempt to equate mean word length per report across REM and NREM reports.