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money,
and I knew he was
a gangster who was
preparing
to cheat on his taxes.
He saw me
watching, and
began to chase me with a
gun. It
seems that we
ran for a long time, and at one point
we were
running through the woods,
where I
tripped on
a log and fell down. The gangster came
over to
me; I was paralyzed and
couldn't move.
Just as
he was about to shoot, I
woke up." The
definition of
whole recall is that the dreamer feels
satisfied
that the recall of
the dream is fairly
complete; there
may be some uncertainty concern-
ing how
the dream actually began, and
various
details may
be missing, but the memory of
the
dream
has not frustrating gaps
suggesting that
knowledge of
the dream could be significantly
improved.
A review of
the seven categories should be helpful.
Zero (0) is the easiest; it reflects no knowledge
of even
dreaming. The remaining six
categories represent
significant steps toward improvement
of dream recall.
Each category has an "at least"
aspect to its definition
and a "but not more than" aspect. At first,
the categories
may seem arbitrarily defined; however, as you
begin to
use the scale, you will find that the descriptions "fit"
the
various experiences of evaluating
dream recall. The
Awareness (A) category means
at least an awareness
that dreaming was going on, but without any recall of
the
dream content. The Indefinite (I) category
means recall
of at least some dream content, but
no knowledge of
what the dream was about.
The Fragmentary (F)
category means recall of at
least enough content to
provide knowledge of the theme of the dream, but
with
no flow in the recalled narrative to indicate the chain
of
events. The Partial (P) category entails enough recall
to
provide a flow in the narrative, but
most of the dream
has been forgotten. The Majority (M)
category means
that the majority of the dream
has been recalled, but
there remain frustrating gaps in the memory, indicating
that knowledge of the dream
could be significantly
improved. The Whole (W) category means that
recall is
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