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This corpus contains dream reports collected by Calvin S. Hall and Robert L. Van de Castle in the 1960s to establish normative data for their dream content analysis system. They were used to establish normative data for the Hall and Van de Castle coding system. The dreams have been widely used in dream research for comparative studies.

Overview

Field Value
Title Hall & Van de Castle Norms
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18089278
Environment unknown
Probe unknown
N reports 981
N authors 981
M report length 125 words
Mdn report length 117 words

Citation

  • Domhoff, G. W., & Schneider, A. (2008). Studying dream content using the archive and search engine on DreamBank.net. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(4), 1238-1247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2008.06.010

  • Hall, C. S., & Van de Castle, R. L. (1966). The content analysis of dreams. Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Columns

Reports

Column Description
author Unique author identifier
report Text of dream report

Authors

Column Description
author Unique author identifier
sex Reported sex of author at time of report

Source

Version History

Version Hash DOI
1 (latest) md5:bd376d9dcc77f5369e7f4a058a1ba166 10.5281/zenodo.18089278