Scoring:
ψ The Dead Women of Juarez
Casto Spirituality Scoring System,
Hall/Van de Castle.
University of California Santa Cruz:
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/index.html
Click on one of the following links to see the rules for coding that dream element:
- Characters
- Social Interactions
- Activities (walking, talking, seeing, thinking, etc.)
- Success and Failure
- Misfortune and Good Fortune
- Emotions
- Settings
- Objects
- Descriptive Elements (modifiers, time, negatives)
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/index.html
Resources for Scientists:
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/resources.html
Hall/Van de Castle system:
- All major indicators for the main content categories
- Characters
- Aggression
- Friendliness
- Sexuality
- Activities
- Success & Failure
- Misfortune & Good Fortune
- Emotions
- Settings
- Objects
- Descriptive Modifiers
- Negatives, Temporal References, Food & Eating
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Norms/index.html
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The DreamBank is a collection of dream reports
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"We analyzed 28 dreams from Sigmund Freud and 31 from Carl Jung." http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Findings/freud-jung.html
- Introduction
- Definition of a Character
- Classes of Characters
- Coding the Characters
- Metamorphoses
- Additional Coding Rules
- Summary of Coding Symbols
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/characters.html
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Results:
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The Hall/ Van de Castle system may shed some light on the problem of identification of who the dream characters are. Since clarity is lacking at this point, the Casto system shall be used for assistance in the determination of who brings the dreams. Lindblom
Hall/ Van de Castle coding:
Casto Spirituality Scoring System
WHO? "Characters, as already mentioned, consist of people, animals, or mythical figures. They are "coded" as characters, meaning they are "categorized" or "classified," when any one of the conditions set forth below can be satisfied. It should be kept in mind that the term character is used to refer both to an individual person or animal and also to a group of such individuals. A couple or a crowd is therefore called a character." http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/characters.html#Definition
That would mean that the dream characters mentioned are individual persons or animals AND a group that is called a character. Lindblom
WHO? Further work is being done at this time to denominate the dream characters. There are emergent characteristics. The dream characters are activist in a manner not usually associated with dreamwork. That is to say, they have a real world effect confirmed by special consensus (a Castaneda term).
Classes of Characters
"After the characters of a dream have been determined using the foregoing criteria, each codeable character, except animal characters, is classified under each of the four following headings:
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/characters.html#Definition

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