ABSTRACT
The main methodological purpose is served, however, by attempting to use a content analysis with hypnotic dreams that will permit comparison with the large available collection of night dreams. The methodological purpose of the investigation was to see how best to use content analysis in comparing night dreams and hypnotic dreams, a suggestion deriving from B. Domhoff, who proposed the use of some of Hall's work on content analysis of thousands of night dreams. Hypnotic dreams, even under the somewhat artificial laboratory conditions here described, have much in common with night dreams, although there had been many reasons to expect differences. Interpretations of hypnotically induced dreams should probably consider the dreams to be projective products falling somewhere in between TAT stories and night dreams. The more highly susceptible the subject, the more likely he is to dream under hypnosis, and the more likely it is that his dream will be like a night dream.
