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In article <106373@netnews.upenn.edu> rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu 
     (Mickey Rowe) writes:

>In any case, Seligman and Yager surveyed a bunch of undergraduates
>here at Penn about the content of their dreams.

Whoops!  I just want to post a correction since I remembered last
night that Marty's co-author's name on that paper was Amy Yellen.
Since I'm already posting a correction, I figured I might as well try
to dig up the whole reference.  Here it is:

Seligman, M. and Yellen, A. (1987). "What is a Dream?", _Behavior
     Research and Therapy", 25(1):1-24.

The Abstract of the paper reads:

ABSTRACT:       Describes a dream theory that suggests that dreaming consists
                   of 3 elements. The theory predicts that there are 2 kinds of
                   visual imagery in dreams: one vivid, detailed, colorful,
                   large, and in the center of the visual field; and the other
                   less vivid, less detailed, less colorful, smaller, and in
                   the periphery. It is consistent with the incongruence of
                   events in dreaming, the transmogrification of images and
                   setting, and the incorporation of external intrusions. The
                   theory suggests why causality is linear in dreaming, specifies
                   the psychological differences between dreaming and waking,
                   and between REM and nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and
                   comments on the notion of ""scene'' and the ability to
                   ""control'' dream content. The theory also suggests that the
                   cognitive synthesis is the most likely place to find the
                   ""meaning'' of dream. Evidence supporting the theory is
                   presented in 2 experiments, using approximately 80
                   undergraduates who reported their dreams.


>Mickey Rowe     (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)

Ibid