ABSTRACT
Dreams provide a lot of purely factual information about a person: his vocation, the members of his family, marital status, habits, interests, preferences, and hobbies. They also yield information concerning his personality traits, conflicts, complexes, and concerns. Dreams also yield suggestive information about the probable origins of behavior. Dreams appear to tap the network of memories to an extent that no other readily available form of behavior does. The frequencies obtained from an analysis of Norman's dreams were compared with frequencies obtained from a group of dreams reported by young men and a group reported by young wornen. The chapter explains an objective method of content analysis when applied to reported dreams yields important information about the personality and behavior of the dreamer. It identifies the components that go to make up the personality of a type of child molester.
