Dream Recall and Content in Long and Short Sleepers
Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1972 John M. Taub
Dream recall and content were compared between 10 female college students who habitually slept more than 9 hours per night and 7 who slept less than 6.5 hours per night. Over two weeks, the short sleepers reported 81 dreams and the long sleepers reported 114 dreams. Among nine dream content variables, the two groups differed significantly on only one, and they did not significantly differ in how often they recalled dreams. The authors suggest that sleep length itself may be relatively unimportant for dream reports and dream reporting in homogeneous groups of long and short sleepers, and other personality characteristics may matter more.