Dreams of traditional and nontraditional women: Are dream aggression and hostility related to higher levels of waking well-being?

Continuity and change: The dreams of women throughout adulthood.

“…Additional findings concern the characters with whom the dreamer interacts, which reflect age-related self-conceptions and concerns about significant others (Lortie-Lussier & Delorme 1990; Lortie-Lussier, De Koninck, Renaud, & Rinfret, 1990; Lortie-Lussier, et al 1992; Rinfret, Lortie-Lussier & De Koninck, 1991). But in contrast, Handlin’s (1992) investigation of adult women’s dreams revealed that aggression and anxiety were influenced by gender-role orientation rather than age. Retrospective dream reports collected by Garfield (1988) showed, in addition, how dream narratives incorporate critical events from different periods of the life cycle.…”