| The gender of the participant, Male or Female |
Female |
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| The age of the participant, in years. |
14 |
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| Current grade in school, asked of participants in the Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
eleventh grade |
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| School location, asked of participants in the Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
Not sure |
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| School type, asked of participants in the Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
Private or parochial school |
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| Race/ethnicity question asked of participants in Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
Asian or Pacific Islander |
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| Text of most memorable dream reports from participants in the Memorable Dreams Survey 2011 and other sources. Exact question used in the Memorable Dreams Survey 2011: We are interested in hearing the story of an especially memorable dream you had, from any time in your life. Please try to recall as many details as possible, including the setting, characters, colors, actions, and any feelings or thoughts you had in the dream. |
I was about 11 yrs old. I had a flowy white dress on and it was dark. Not a night dark but an absence of everything dark. It was like the only thing that existed and was tangible was me. Then a cliff came into view. As I climbed I felt as if I was just supposed to go up there. When i reached the top everything changed. The sky was clear and the sun was out and I could see a bed of flowers at the base of the cliff. Then I felt hands enclose me not in a threatening manner but in a loving embrace; or at least that was what i thought the feeling behind it was. When I looked back to see his face it was hard to describe it in that it had no face. It was a blurr of some sort. Then he pushed me off suddenly and without mercy. I slowly plummeted down and as i got closer to the flowers they turned out to be needles rapidly approaching me. Then it went dark in that i couldn't see anything. I had no feeling and when i woke up I realized that I had jumped off of my own bed and was crumpled on the floor. |
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