Abstract
Examining the relationship of dream recall frequency to personality traits can help psychologists understand dreams. This study examined dream recall frequency with openness to experience, fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideals, values, neuroticism, anxiety, hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsiveness, and vulnerability, as well as thinness of boundaries, state and trait anxiety, and intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity. Forty-nine males and 158 females between the ages of 18 and 43 (mean age 20.3) filled out a paper and pencil questionnaire that included Schredl's Dream Recall Scale, the NEO-PI-R, Hartmann's Boundary Questionnaire, Speilberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Allport and Ross' Religious Orientation Scale. This study confirmed past research that people who remember their dreams are more likely to be open to experience, interested in fantasy, experience more intense emotions, be more open to diverse ideas, and have lower anxiety and less vulnerability (p < .05), indicating that drean recall is connected to specific personality traits.