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2. How positive was the overall experience of participating in the experiment? 3. How negative was the experience? 4. How much insight and self-awareness did you gain as a result of the experience? 5. Rate the degree to which the experience put you in touch with your feelings. 6. Do you feel the work you've done on your dream in this experiment might cause you to change your behavior in any way? 7. Do you feel that what you did in this experiment could be useful outside the therapy environment (i.e., without the help of a therapist)? 8. Did the experience offer a satisfying intellectual explanation of your dream? 9. Estimate how effective the work you've done in this experiment might be in dealing with all kinds of dream content (e.g., other dreams you've had). 10. As a result of the experience, do you consider dreams more meaningful? After the questionnaire had been completed, the participant was told about the other experimental groups and the nature of the investigation. Questions and comments were encouraged. Then the experimenter erased the recording. ResultsRatings given to the last nine questions were added up for each participant, to provide total rating scores for the three experimental groups. Statistical analysis indicated that there was a greater-than-chance difference in questionnaire scores for the three groups. The Peris group received the highest overall ratings, and the control group received the lowest overall ratings. Statistical analysis indicated that the Hall group definitely reacted more favorably to their experience than the control group reacted to theirs. Reaction to the Peris experience was definitely more favorable overall than the reaction to the Hall experience. We examined separately each of the ten questions to see how participants in the Peris group responded differently than the participants in the Hall group. For six of the ten questions, there was little difference in the ratings given by the participants in these two groups. For example, their rating of Question 8, concerning how satisfactory an intellectual explanation of the dream resulted, was identical for both the Peris and Hall groups. But for four of the ten questions, the Peris group scored much higher (better than chance) than the Hall group. More than the Hall group, the Peris group thought the experience put them in touch with their feelings (Question 5); that the experience would be useful even without the presence of a therapist (Question 7); that the experience would be useful with other dreams (Question 9); 77
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