Aggressive dreams were scaled by The Aggressive Interactions Scale, developed by Hall and Van de Castle in 1996. It was used to record several different components of aggression: the initiator of the aggressive act, the subclass, as well as the victim. Once the dreams were deciphered and broken down, were then placed into eight more sub categories. They split them by ranging the amount of aggression present in the nightmare. Dreams placed in categories one through four were dreams that contained nonphysical aggression, dreams that were placed …show more content…
All responders were from the United States and 87% were Caucasian. 7% reported having nightmares on a daily basis, 23% reported a couple times a week, and 70% reported a couple times a month. The “couples times a month” category was divided pretty evenly among the male and female participants. Of the nightmares, 353 of the recorded dreams were females and 83 were posted by males. Of the unpleasant dreams 320 were posted by females, and 71 were posted by