Dreams And Themes In Your Child's Dreams By Patricia Garfield

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Patricia Garfield, in her book Your Child’s Dreams collected 247 dreams from schoolchildren in the US and a few in India. She found that 64% of those were “bad” dreams and the remaining 36% were “good” dreams. Of the bad dreams, almost half had a theme of being chased or attacked, and in the remaining dreams about 40% had a sense of danger or some character being injured or killed, even though there was no direct threat. Of the “good” dreams, about half of the themes fell into two categories. The most frequent category was just “having a good time,” and the next was of the child receiving a gift or having some desired possessions.