Hutchinson ' Robert Linton , II TITLE Waking ana 4 Dreaming Need

ABSTRACT Research has defined the various adaptive, compensatory and..complementary functions.of,dreams. T, investigate the evidence of adaptive functioning in the dream state, 30'medical students ,(21 males, 9 females) from.St. George's UnOrersitye Grenada, completed personal, surveys, a waking. psychological profile, and a dreaming psychological profile using the Adjective /Check List (ACL), which' identifies needs according to 15scale3. Su jects were insttucted in dream retention techniqUes and subsequently completed an ACL for each dream recorded weekly during a 3.7'.month period. An .analysis of the results showed no significant correlations, between the subjects' self-waking*psychologica profildi and the subjects' dreaming profiles on 15 adjective need scales./Nor were Significant corrftlations found between the profiles generdted by the subjegts' significant others and the Ambjects' dreaming or waking profiles on 15 need scales created from the ACL.-Howevery, significant intercorrelations were found,in the dream profiles between dominance/endurance; nurturpnce/heterosexuaility; achievement/change; exhibition/change; endurance/abaseMent; and nurturance/deference. (An extensive bibliography and data .tables presenting the resakch are included. The appendices also contain the registration and personal history form, the dream survey and the recall manual; the computer program, and the dream profiles.) (HL) /