First and second reports of the same REM dream of 20 male undergraduates were compared, and additions and restructurings analysed. When the interval between the two reports is in the waking condition the additions are more numerous than after an interval of sleep. For other characteristics of the reports (adjacency relations, motivational components) no significant differences between the two conditions were found.
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