Zanasi Marco, De Persis Simone, Caporali Manlio, Siracusano Alberto
Unità Operativa di Psichiatria, Università Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
Percept Mot Skills. 2005 Jun;100(3 Pt 2):925-38. doi: 10.2466/pms.100.3c.925-938.
This work evaluated the association of age and dream reports. The verbal reports of 148 dreams of elderly people (M age=75.8 yr.) were compared with 151 dreams of a group of young people (M age=22.0). The dreams were analyzed according to the Jungian vision (which looks at the dream as a text produced by the dreamer's unconscious while sleeping), using processing techniques derived from textual analysis. Significant differences were found between the number of words denoting emotion, with the young people reporting more explicit statements regarding emotional states. Significant differences were found also in use of verb tenses. When older people explicitly expressed an emotional state in a dream text, they shifted between present and past tense more frequently than young people. A significant prevalence in the semantic field of visual sense was evident as younger subjects used more sentences referring to sight than the elderly participants.
这项研究评估了年龄与梦境报告之间的关联。将148名老年人（平均年龄 = 75.8岁）的梦境口头报告与一组年轻人（平均年龄 = 22.0岁）的151个梦境进行了比较。根据荣格的观点（将梦境视为梦者睡眠时潜意识产生的文本），使用文本分析衍生的处理技术对梦境进行了分析。在表示情感的词汇数量上发现了显著差异，年轻人对情绪状态的表述更为明确。在动词时态的使用上也发现了显著差异。当老年人在梦境文本中明确表达一种情绪状态时，他们在现在时态和过去时态之间转换的频率比年轻人更高。视觉语义领域存在显著的普遍性，因为年轻受试者使用的涉及视觉的句子比老年参与者更多。
