Gender and age aspects of dreams’ semantics

Existing concepts of sleep origin and dreams regulation review shows fluctuations from excessive "psychologization" in psychoanalytic tradition representatives to the reduce of dreaming to a "side" product of brain structure attunement physiological processes. Basing on the Jungian concept of dreams’ semantics, authors have created a meaning of dreams questionnaire, consisting on the combination of “closed”, by selecting from a list of choices, and an open (subjective phenomena). An initial testing was conducted on a sample of more than 180 people. It is shown that characteristics such as sexual motives and the need for a posteriori change of dreams content have age (groups of 30-40 and 40-50 years old respondents) and sex specific: women have generally more dreams (and have them more often), experiencing a slight desire for their story editors and consistently high interest in sex during sleep. At the same time, men show a growing interest in sex and desire for revision of the content of sleep with age.