http://www.dreambank.net/

                    DreamBank: www.dreambank.net
                 Adam Schneider & G. William Domhoff
                   Psychology Dept., UC Santa Cruz
Welcome to The DreamBank, a collection Click on the links below to
of over 20,000 dream reports. The      start using the DreamBank.
reports come from a variety of
different sources and research studies *  Dream Search: frames
-- but NOT from dream-collecting Web       version -- This is the
sites -- from people ages 7 to 74, and     "normal" interface to the
they can be analyzed using the search     search engine; the search
engine and statistical programs built     results are presented as
into this site.                           "panes" in a larger window.

What's new                             *  Dream Search: no frames --
                                          The dream reports appear in
We now have 463 more recent dreams        a new window; this is best
from the Vietnam Veteran who              for those with very 
previously contributed 98 of his          small screens.
post-Vietnam nightmares and 32
additional dreams from 2015. Taken     *  Random sample -- Draw a
together, these series could be a         random sample of dream
valuable resource for studying PTSD       reports (which match a
and its lingering effects on dreams.      specified length) from one
                                          or more series.
Several of the people who have
contributed dreams to the DreamBank    *  Coding Search -- Some of
wrote prefaces to their journals which    the dreams in the DreamBank
may be of interest. We've also done       have been coded with the
quantitative analyses of some series,     Hall/Van de Castle coding
which you can learn about when you        system, and a utility for
click the "More Info" button in the       searching those codings is
search engine, and we've collected        available to scientists or
some highlights of the prefaces and       students doing serious
analyses. For a broader overview, look    research. Please contact us
at the grid that summarizes all the       for information.
series we have available for
searching.

If you're looking for ideas on the
kinds of research you could do using
the DreamBank, see the article we
published in Consciousness and
Cognition in 2008, Studying Dream
Content Using the Archive and Search
Engine on DreamBank.net. For an
in-depth study of one dream journal
that deploys many new word strings
that could be used in your own
studies, see this 2010 article on
extracting meaning from dreams using
word string searches on DreamBank.

To make serious use of the DreamBank,
you have to take the time to learn how
to construct sensible search queries;
click here or on the help link in the
search form for more information.




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