A Comparative Need Analysis of Immediately-Recalled Dreams and TAT Responses

Abstract

Thirteen Ss were each administered six TAT pictures in the usual manner. Approximately one week later, each S spent one night in an EEG lab especially equipped for dream collection. Shortly after various physiological measures indicated that the S was dreaming, he was awakened and asked to report the dream. Both dreams and TAT responses were scored by a form of Murray's need-press system. The evidence suggests that the dreams and TAT tended to show some of the same needs for each S, but that other needs were expressed in only one of the two forms. Affiliation and play were positively correlated in their appearance in both dreams and TAT; dominance showed a negative correlation (all signigicant at or beyond .05).