This study investigated the aggressive components of the dream content of 120 Spanish children and adolescents of 4 different age groups. The C. S. Hall and R. L. Van de Castle (1966) coding system was used to rate the number of dream characters and aggressions, and the content findings were analyzed via the indicators presented by G. W. Domhoff (1993Domhoff ( , 1996Domhoff ( , 2003 GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DREAM CONTENTWomen's dreams have been found to differ from those of men in a number of areas. One of the earliest and most frequently replicated findings is that male characters predominate in men's dreams (67%), whereas male and female characters appear in equal proportion in women's dreams (Hall & Van de Castle, 1966). Compared with women, men are also more likely to report dreams with aggressive content (Domhoff, 1996;Hall, Domhoff, Blick, & Weesner, 1982;Winget, Kramer, & Whitman, 1972). Cross-cultural studies (for an overview, see Domhoff, 1996) have shown the "ubiquitous" nature of the character ratio findings and of the aggression pattern in dream content: In most cultures, men dream more frequently of other men than of women and have more physical aggression in their dreams, whereas women dream of men and women in an equal proportion and are more frequently victims of aggression.Schredl, Sahin, and Schä fer (1998) also found a higher frequency of male dream characters in men's dreams, in addition to more sexuality and physical

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