Appendix B -
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Sample Dreams Coded with the Modified Dream Threat Scale:
Sample Earliest Remembered Dream I am either eating or drinking something, and suddenly the inside of my mouth feels very loose and wobbly. I reach in and feel my teeth and they accidentally come out of my gums one by one, really easily, like kernels of corn, until I’m totally toothless, there’s blood everywhere [and I wake up really scared]. Total Words: 50; Threat Words: 50; Threat Word Percentage: 100% Themes Non-threat: none Aggression: none Misfortune: teeth falling out Failure: none Threat-other: none Recurring: Yes; Ever told anyone: Yes Threat Target: self; Threat Severity: severe Notes. In this and following samples, non-included words are in brackets (words that do not directly describe the dream). Threatening sentences and sentence portions are underlined. Only after Earliest Recalled Dreams were participants asked about recurrence and dream story sharing. Sample Most Recent Dream I am in a room at my father’s house, which has recently been sold (in real life). I am in some sort of trouble with my mother, and as a punishment am told that I have only five minutes to pack up all of my childhood memories and artifacts, and that anything I do not pack, my mother will burn. I frantically start trying to put everything in my room that had accumulated over my childhood in this one, small box. I can’t figure out which things to pack first, and begin hysterically sobbing. I watch as my mother starts to burn my things and the crying just gets worse, I still try to pack everything but the crying blurs my vision. I am angry at my mother, sad that I have to leave my house, and distraught over my “childhood” being burned. [Then I woke up]. Total Words: 143; Threat Words: 126; Threat Word Percentage: 88.1% Themes Non-threat: none Aggression: verbal hostility Misfortune: separation from family Failure: to get something done Threat-other: none Threat Target: self; Threat Severity: minor Sample Most Important Dream [While in Europe, I had a very vivid dream of] being in Paris and running into an old friend that I lost touch with in high school. We hung out together until eventually we were in a field where up ahead I saw a party going on. It turned out to be a party for a girl that I used to be very close but who passed away in a car accident about a year before [this dream occurred]. I saw her and hugged her and wept about not being there for her in her later days [(not that she was sick or anything, we just drifted and never got together after high school). I woke up saddened but felt like she knew that I loved her, which had been something that I was afraid she didn’t know about in reality and in my dream]. Total Words: 84; Threat Words: 18; Threat Word Percentage: 21.4% Themes Non-threat: interacting with/seeing deceased Aggression: none Misfortune: none Failure: none Threat-other: upset/embarrassed Threat Target: self; Threat Severity: minor |