: This work evaluated the association of age and dream reports. The verbal reports of 148 dreams of elderly people (M age=75.8 yr.) were compared with 151 dreams of a group of young people (M age=22.0). The dreams were analyzed according to the Jungian vision (which looks at the dream as a text produced by the dreamer's unconscious while sleeping), using processing techniques derived from textual analysis. Significant differences were found between the number of words denoting emotion, with the young people reporting more explicit statements regarding emotional states. Significant differences were found also in use of verb tenses. When older people explicitly expressed an emotional state in a dream text, they shifted between present and past tense more frequently than young people. A significant prevalence in the semantic field of visual sense was evident as younger subjects used more sentences referring to sight than the elderly participants.

Zanasi, M., De Persis, S., Caporali, M., Siracusano, A. (2005). Dreams and age. PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, 100(3 Pt 2), 925-938 [10.2466/pms.100.3c.925-938].

Dreams and age

Zanasi M.;Caporali M.;Siracusano A.
2005-06-01

Abstract

: This work evaluated the association of age and dream reports. The verbal reports of 148 dreams of elderly people (M age=75.8 yr.) were compared with 151 dreams of a group of young people (M age=22.0). The dreams were analyzed according to the Jungian vision (which looks at the dream as a text produced by the dreamer's unconscious while sleeping), using processing techniques derived from textual analysis. Significant differences were found between the number of words denoting emotion, with the young people reporting more explicit statements regarding emotional states. Significant differences were found also in use of verb tenses. When older people explicitly expressed an emotional state in a dream text, they shifted between present and past tense more frequently than young people. A significant prevalence in the semantic field of visual sense was evident as younger subjects used more sentences referring to sight than the elderly participants.
1-giu-2005
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Rilevanza internazionale
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Esperti anonimi
Settore MED/25
Settore MED/25
English
Zanasi, M., De Persis, S., Caporali, M., Siracusano, A. (2005). Dreams and age. PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, 100(3 Pt 2), 925-938 [10.2466/pms.100.3c.925-938].
Zanasi, M; De Persis, S; Caporali, M; Siracusano, A
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