I have attempted to give a rapid overview of four major studies utilizing REM indicators of dreaming: the first, consisted of the evaluation of the psychological effects of the tranquillizer drugs via standardized collection of five-minute dream samples; the second, consisted of ascertaining the deeper anxieties of the experimental subject when he is undergoing all night monitoring of his dreaming; the third, was the experimental induction of conflict with its subsequent appearance in free associations and dreams; and the fourth, a comparison of dreams as told to the experimenter and to the therapist.
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