Dream-related survey findings from two research projects, each with a random postal survey component and a web-based administration of the questionnaire. The first project was an effort to explore the connection of depersonalization and satisfication with life and the out-of-body experience. The second project explored absorption, adult memories of childhood imaginary companions, life satisfaction and exceptional experiences in general. All four studies contained a series of questions on dream recall, type of dreams and frequency of dreaming. This presentation focused on the relationship of the dream variables and other aspects of the survey instruments.

1. Dreaming-Related Findings
in Bial 79/08
with Comparison to
Similar Findings in Bial 65/06
Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D.,
Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D.
& Natasha Agee, B.A.,
Atlantic University

2. Bial 79/08 Postal Survey
No/Rarely Occasionally +
Variables % N % N Total N
Dream Recall 25% 64 75% 196 260
Disturbing Dreams 34% 88 66% 172 260
Lucid Dreams 54% 139 46% 120 259
Bial 79/08 Web Survey
No/Rarely Occasionally +
Variables % N % N Total N
Dream Recall 2% 7 98% 418 425
Disturbing Dreams 2% 11 98% 528 539
Lucid Dreams 14% 67 87% 462 529

3. Bial 79/08 Means Means
Postal SWLS N/R SWLS O/M p Psi Index N/R Psi Index O/M p
Dream Recall 23.95 24.08 ns 1.76 2.30 0.013
Disturbing Dreams 25.34 23.44 0.041 1.58 2.45<.0001
Lucid Dreams 24.56 23.47 ns 1.54 2.89<.0001
Means Means
Web SWLS N/R SWLS O/M p Psi Index N/R Psi Index O/M p
Dream Recall 23.43 21.43 ns 2.29 3.13 ns
Disturbing Dreams 27.82 21.85 0.008 2.82 3.31 ns
Lucid Dreams 21.64 21.84 ns 1.79 3.47 <.0001
Means Means
Postal TAS Score N/R TAS Score O/M p TAS Freq N/R TAS Freq O/M p
Dream Recall 14.42 17.44 0.013 27.94 38.60 0.002
Disturbing Dreams 13.87 18.12 <.0001 27.66 40.22 <.0001
Lucid Dreams 13.60 20.33 <.0001 26.77 47.18 <.0001
Means Means
Web TAS Score N/R TAS Score O/M p TAS Freq N/R TAS Freq O/M P
Dream Recall 19.00 22.07 ns 60.43 73.11 ns
Disturbing Dreams 15.64 22.84 0.003 52.36 77.41 0.017
Lucid Dreams 16.28 23.42 <.0001 50.27 79.51 <.0001

4. Bial 65/06 Postal Survey
No/Rarely Occasionally +
Variables % N % N Total N
Dream Recall 29% 74 71% 178 252
Disturbing
Dreams 49% 123 51% 127 250
Lucid Dreams 63% 159 37% 93 252
Bial 65/06 Web Survey
No/Rarely Occasionally +
Variables % N % N Total N
Dream Recall 68% 13 87 466 479
Disturbing
Dreams 35% 186 65 347 533
Lucid Dreams 34% 183 66 349 532

5. 65/06 Means Means
Postal SWLS N/R SWLS O/M p Psi Index N/RPsi Index O/M p
Dream Recall 24.20 25.74 ns 1.51 1.93 0.031
Disturbing Dreams 26.26 24.39 0.015 1.58 2.04 0.028
Lucid Dreams 25.49 25.01 ns 1.50 2.33 <.0001
Means Means
Web SWLS N/R SWLS O/M p Psi Index N/RPsi Index O/M p
Dream Recall 20.50 21.64 ns 2.85 3.82 <.0001
Disturbing Dreams 22.05 21.06 0.021 3.41 3.85 0.007
Lucid Dreams 20.89 21.88 ns 2.94 4.08 <.0001
Means Means
Postal CDS Score N/R CDS Score O/M p CDS Dur. N/R CDS Dur. O/M P
Dream Recall 20.69 20.10 ns 12.68 11.93 ns
Disturbing Dreams 19.32 21.51 ns 11.45 12.82 ns
Lucid Dreams 16.87 26.09 <.0001 10.33 15.27 0.002
Means Means
Web CDS Score N/R CDS Score O/M P CDS Dur. N/R CDS Dur. O/M p
Dream Recall 33.35 41.32 0.011 19.44 24.96 0.010
Disturbing Dreams 32.41 44.65 <.0001 19.96 26.63 <.0001
Lucid Dreams 30.77 45.48 <.0001 18.50 27.38 <.0001

6. 65/06 Means
Postal CDS Frequency N/R CDS Frequency O/M p
Dream Recall 8.01 8.17 ns
Disturbing Dreams 7.59 8.69 ns
Lucid Dreams 6.55 10.82 <.0001
Means
Web CDS Frequency N/R CDS Frequency O/M p
Dream Recall 13.91 16.36 0.035
Disturbing Dreams 12.45 18.02 <.0001
Lucid Dreams 12.27 18.10 <.0001

7. Alvarado, C.S., Zingrone, N.L., & Agee, N. (Submitted for publication). Feelings of
being out of the body: Relationship with depersonalization experiences. (Bial 79/08)
Zingrone, N.L., Alvarado, C.S., & Agee, N. (2011). Absorption experiences and their
relationship to dreams, imaginary companions and parapsychological experiences.
Paper presented at the « Parapsychology and Consciousness » Conference at Atlantic
University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, October 14th-16th, 2011. (Bial 79/08)
Zingrone, N.L., Alvarado, C.S., & Agee, N. (2009). Psychological correlates of aura
vision: Psychic experiences, dissociation, absorption, and synaesthesia-like
experiences. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37(2), 131-168.
(Bial 65/06)
Alvarado, C.S., Zingrone, N.L., & Agee, N, (2009). Experiencias parapsicológicas y de
despersonalización: Una encuesta con una muestra norteamericana de la comunidad
[Parapsychological and depersonalization experiences: A survey with a North-
American community sample]. In F.E. DA Silva (Ed.), V Encontro Psi: A Variedade das
Experiencias Humanas (PP. 90-93). Brazil: Destak Gráfica for Instituto Pernabucano de
Pesquisas Psicobiofísicas and Faculdades Integradas “Espírita,” Campus Universitairo
Bezerra de Menezes. (Bial 65/06)
Publications and Presentations from Bial 65/06 and Bial 79/08
nancy.zingrone@atlanticuniv.edu