title: Age differences in dreams. II: Distortion and other variables.
abstract: Age-related change in manifest dream content was assessed in dreams recalled from REM sleep by fifty-eight men aged twenty-seven to sixty-four and in dreams recalled from sleep at home. There was evidence of a small-age-related decline in dream distortion (bizarreness) and family-related content, with family-related content most prominent from ages thirty-five to fifty-five. Overall the effect of increasing age on dream content is slight.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D000375:Aging; D004325:Dreams; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012895:Sleep, REM