Spoken and written dream communication: differences and methodological aspects

Based on structural differences between spoken andwritten language, the purpose of this paper was toinvestigate whether spoken and written communicationimply a different representation in reportingan experienced dream. Three hundred subjectstape recording their own dreams and putting themdown in writing. The reports were analyzed by apsycholinguistic system. Results indicated that thereport modality is able to affect the dreamexperience representation, conditioning the figurative(re)translation carried out by the tester: writtenforms show a loss of hallucinatory information anda non-complete correspondence also of the bizarrenessfeatures with respect to the spoken texts.