se, Stickgold and Hobson.The variables being measured in this study are 'scene shift' (discontinuity of setting in place or time), 'entity change' (discontinuity of character, object or action), and 'discontinuity' (of thoughts or feelings of the dreamer or dream character). Followed by 'incongruity' (a mismatching of features of characters, objects, actions, thoughts or emotions with what is normal in waking life), and finally 'cognitive uncertainty (of thoughts, emotion or feelings or vagueness surrounding any element of the dream or narrative. METHODParticipantsThe participants were University of Tasmania KHA2112/312 students. There were 88 cases available to be samples, however 8 of these cases have been excluded from the analysis by listwise exclusions of cases that have any missing values. There were 80 cases in the final sample.ProcedureEach participant was requested to recall dreams and daydreams over a period of a week. There were three separate entities to be recalled. The first was to recall a dream which was had overnight whilst sleeping (REM). The second was to recall a daydream that takes place whilst sitting in the University Library. The third was to recall a daydream which takes place whilst lying on their bed in their bedroom. Each participant was then asked to briefly note occurrences that had taken place the week prior. The information then had to be scored and handed in for analysis. Please refer to Appendices A and B for applicable scoring sheets and recording method.RESULTSThe data were analysed using a repeated measured analysis of variance with four levels corresponding to the four conditions in which the narratives were collected. A Greenhouse-Geisser correction was made to the p value to allow for violation of the sphericity assumption. Adjacent tests were then carried out in descending order to show significance.The results failed to support the activation-synthesis hypothesis with only category showing the ...
