This paper presents the data obtained when night dream reports, collected by waking subjects during REM sleep, are completed by a complementary morning interview. Our data collection technique aims at facilitating the storage of the dream experience in long-term memory, at assisting in the recall of this experience the next morning and at obtaining a maximum level of information which communicates the contents of the dream as completely as possible. The night and complementary morning reports of 15 subjects (one dream per subject) were analyzed by two judges. Each subject added an important amount of information in the morning interview: on the whole 622 new pieces of information, which contributed to eliminate ambiguities and substantially changed the way in which the experimenters visualized and understood the dream experience. The additional information did not make the contents of the dream more coherent and most of it (78%) could not have been deduced from the elements mentioned in the night report. Specific features of dream mentation also appeared in the additional morning information.
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