Research Questionnaire - Rough model

General:

  How many dreams do you estimate you recall per week? ___________________

  How much interest do you generally take in dreams?  very little___ reasonable____  much___

Reactions:

If you have, how old were you when you had the most vivid or impactful of such dreams?

What were your physical and/or emotional reactions upon waking from this dream?

How long did your feelings upon awakening last?

Did you write this dream down?______ If so, how long after you had it? ______

Did you do anything differently that day because of the dream? ____If so, please describe what you did

Did you ever have this or a very similar dream again?___ If so, how many times, and at what intervals did the dream recur?  __________________________________________________

Did this dream have any long-term significance in terms of your beliefs, feelings, or life plans, or  in any other way? ____ If so, please elaborate:

Physical memory:

Do you remember certain objects/colours/people that stand out constantly in your dreams?

Are you partly conscious during the course of your dream? If yes … elaborate on your state of mind?

If there was ONE word to describe the sensation of your dream, what would it be?

What do you remember most from your dreams? Rate on a scale from 1 to 6 (1 being least memorable)

Faces

Colours

Objects

Places

Sound

Dialogue/Words

Cognitive:

 Did you ever have a dream in which you felt you had special powers or miraculous abilities?_____

 Did you ever have a dream in which you experienced feelings of great sadness? ______

 Did you ever have a dream in which you experienced feelings of great anger? ______

 Did you ever have a dream in which you experienced great fear or apprehension? _______

 Did you ever have a dream in which you experienced feelings of great confusion? _______

 Did you ever experience a dream that caused you to feel great guilt on awakening? ______

 Did you ever experience a dream that caused you to feel great shock on awakening? _____

 Did you ever experience a dream that you feel was a mystical or religious experience? _____

 Have you ever had a dream that led to the solution of a problem for you? _______

Have you ever had a dream that led to an artistic creation by you?  ______

Did you ever experience a dream that you feel was in some way metaphoric, and struck you as such at the time?_____

Have you ever had any other kind of  dream that was emotionally or intellectually important for you, but is not covered by our questions? _____ If so, please describe the dream and its impact:

REFERENCES

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Busink, R., & Kuiken, D. (1996). Identifying types of impactful dreams: A replication. Dreaming, 6, 97-119.

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Knudson, R. M., & Minier, S. (1999). The on-going significance of significant dreams: The case of the bodiless head. Dreaming, 9, 235-245.

Kuiken, D., & Sikora, S. (1993). The impact of dreams on waking thoughts and feelings. In A. Moffitt & M. Kramer & R. Hoffmann (Eds.), The functions of dreaming. (pp. 419-476). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.