Dream theme team

Published on
February 20, 2004
Last updated
May 22, 2015

The most popular dreams of university students have been revealed by Canadian researchers Tore Nielsen of the Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal and Donald Kuiken of the University of Alberta. They studied 1,400 students at three Canadian universities and identified themes common to their dreams:

  • Being chased or pursued, but not injured
  • Sex
  • Falling
  • University, teachers and studying
  • Arriving late
  • Being on the verge of falling
  • Seeing a person now alive as dead
  • Attempting to accomplish something again and again
  • Flying through the air
  • Vividly sensing a spiritual presence
  • Failing an exam
  • Being physically attacked
  • Seeing a dead person as alive
  • Being a child again.

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