“…Such findings are very different from what is claimed in the Freudian and Jungian dream literatures about the symbolic contents of children's dreams. As for the anecdotal examples of alleged dream sleeptalking by toddlers who have been overheard by adults, such as Freud's (1900, p. 130) account of his daughter dreaming at 19 months about the "stwawbewwies, wild stwawbewwies, omblet, pudden" she could not have during the day due to an upset stomach, they are more likely the product of the numerous mini-awakenings that are known from sleep laboratory studies to occur throughout the sleep period (e.g., Arkin, 1981;BoseIIi, Parrino, Smerieri, & Terzano 1998).…”