A recent article by Resnick, et al. misrepresents the methods and findings of sleep-laboratory dream research with children, and, hence, the significance of their own findings. Since these misrepresentations remain almost totally unretracted, I here undertake to correct them, so that the literature more accurately may reflect the current status of laboratory studies of children's dreaming.
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