An efficient system is described which allows the retrieval from dreams in response to certain questions. No coding is necessary, as the computer works with a large thesaurus containing all semantic relations. For each chosen question word it is possible to find automatically all dreams containing related words (synonyms, subnotions, etc.) and to print them in the output list. Four examples are given and some limitations due to linguistic difficulties discussed.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
HallC. S.Van de CastleR. L.The content analysis of dreams. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966.
