| The gender of the participant, Male or Female |
Female |
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| The age of the participant, in years. |
17 |
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| Current grade in school, asked of participants in the Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
twelfth grade |
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| School location, asked of participants in the Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
Small town or rural area |
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| School type, asked of participants in the Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
Public school |
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| Race/ethnicity question asked of participants in Children's Dreams Survey 2011. |
White |
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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. |
when i was in second grade i had a nightmare that i got abducted by aliens. In the dream i was going to sleep and as i lay in my bunk bed i saw these really weird footprints on the top of my ceiling. In reality they were deer hoof prints but in my dreams they were unrecognizable and i was afraid. there was a strange light coming from downstairs so i went down to see it and there were aliens. I don't remember the actual abduction part but I was really really afraid. When i woke up i was even more afraid. I still believed that the aliens were still following me and i refused to stand in the same place for an extended period of time because i thought the aliens were following me underneath the ground and sorta like in those old cartoons they'd saw a hole around me and I would fall through into their clutches. |
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