The two groups also showed differences in terms of which questions they gave their highest ratings and which they gave their lowest ratings—in fact, there was a complete reversal in pattern between the two groups. For the Peris group, the question that received their highest rating was Question 5 (how much the experience put the dreamer in touch with feelings) and the one that received their second highest rating was Question 10 (how much the experience increased the dreamer's appreciation for the meaningfulness of dreams). For the Hall group, however, Question 5 received their lowest rating and Question 10 received their second lowest rating. The question that received their highest rating was Question 8 (how satisfactory an intellectual explanation of the dream was achieved). The question that received the Hall group's second highest rating was Question 6 (the likelihood that the dreamer would change his behavior as a result of what was learned in the experience). For the Peris group, however, Question 8 received their lowest rating and Question 6 received their second lowest rating.

Discussion

First, the fact that the people in the control group responded overall less favorably to their experience than did the people in either the Peris or Hall group suggests that having some approach to working with dreams is better than having no approach at all. Second, that people in the Peris group responded overall more favorably to their experience than did the people in the Hall group may lend support to the generally increasing popularity of the Gestalt approach to dreams (1). In fact, the majority of written and verbal comments that we received from the participants in the Peris group referred to the excitement and poignancy experienced when the dream was recited in the first person/present tense.

Although the participants in the Peris group seemed to have enjoyed themselves more and reported more benefit from their experience than did the participants in the Hall group, it was not our intention to discredit Hall's cognitive approach to dreams. It is important, therefore, to consider the different pattern of responses to the questions shown by the Peris and Hall groups. For example, echoing our assumption that Peris' approach represents primarily an affectual orientation to dreams whereas Hall's approach is primarily cognitive, participants in the Peris group felt that, above  all,   the   experience   put   them   in  touch  with  their