Boundaries of dreams, boundaries of dreamers: thin and thick boundaries as a new personality measure.
Previous work by the author and his collaborators on frequent nightmare sufferers demonstrated that these people had striking personality characteristics which could be called "thin boundaries" in a number of different senses. In order to measure thin and thick boundaries, a 145-item questionnaire, the Boundary Questionnaire, has been developed which has now been taken by over 1,000 persons. Preliminary results are presented indicating that, as predicted a priori, several new groups of nightmare sufferers and groups of art students scored usually "thin," whereas a group of naval officers had usually "thick" boundaries. Overall, thinness on the Boundary Questionnaire correlated highly positively (r = .40) with frequency of dream recall and also significantly (r = .16) with length of sleep.
Hartmann
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D001154:Art; D004325:Dreams; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory