ABSTRACT

When the criterion of degree of acceptance, degree of opposition and type of opposition are taken into consideration, three types of Dream Sociograms far outnumber all other possible patterns in this dream sample. Bipolar/bipolar patterns are the most frequent category found in the series. Preferring/bipolar Dream Sociograms are the second most common pattern. The third pattern found in significant numbers is Highly Preferring/Preferred. Preferring/Preferred groups comprise 10% of the sample. Only a few borderline examples of rejecting/bipolar Dream Sociograms are found. The data basically reflects waking preferences in remembering and applying the Dream Sociometric method, so it remains psychologically geocentric. A number of factors make this data extremely preliminary. The numerical value of scores is dependent upon: the number and variety of character, action and emotional elements listed across the top of the Sociomatrix. However, taking all of these sources of error into account, we can still arrive at approximate distributions, frequencies and varieties of likely types.