Statistics for dreams

Below are figures based on a word count of a 1000 dreams. If we look at the entry on ‘Man’ below, the number 304 appears beside it. This means the word ‘Man’ appeared 304 times within the 1000 dreams. The word beside it, ‘Men’, appeared 91 times. These are totalled to make the next figure, 395, which is the number of times reference to man/men appeared in the dreams. The figure 1 in the next column shows that within the group headed ‘People And Family’, the words man/men had the highest score. The word People came second scoring 345. The figure in the third column shows the position regarding all the headings, making man/men the sixth highest score, with ‘See, Seeing, Looking’ the highest.

People And Family in dreams

Baby 85 Babies 4                                                                                103      9

Boy                                                                                                             70       14

Child 71 Children 111                                                                         182      6

Daughter                                                                                                   64       15

Father 69 Dad 10                                                                                  79       12

Friend 136 Friends 60                                                                      196      5

Girl                                                                                                              85       10

Husband                                                                                                 197      4

Man 304 Men 91                                                                                 395      1          6

Mother 122 Mummy 3 Mum 12 Mother’s 22                         159      7

People                                                                                                     345      2

Person                                                                                                       76       13

Son                                                                                                             80       11

Wife                                                                                                         106      8

Woman 175 Women 41                                                                   216      3

Objects in dreams

Bus                                                                                                              51       6

Car                                                                                                           124        4

Clothes 54 Wearing 48 Dressed 53                                          155         2

Fire                                                                                                           44         8

Table                                                                                                       50          7

Tree 32 Trees 36                                                                               68          5

Water                                                                                                  164           1

Window 103 Windows 32

135           3

Doing things in dreams

Driving                                                                                                80        11

Fall 41 Falling 30                                                                              71       12

Finding Found Finds                                                                     297         2          12

Flying Fly Flew                                                                                   98       10

Hold Holding Held                                                                         142         8

Give 44 Gave 23                                                                                67        13

Ran 83 Run 61 Running 64                                                        208          4

Sleep Sleeping Slept                                                                       106          9

Sat 47 Sit 112 Sitting 20                                                                     179      7

Standing 141 Stood 52                                                                       193      6

Swim Swimming Swam                                                                      59       14

Take Took Taking                                                                               248      3

Wait Waiting Waited                                                                              56       15

Walking 165 Walk 68 Walked 134                                                 367         1          9

Work Worked Working                                                                      194      5

Body in dreams

Arm 43 Arms 67                                                                                     110      2

Body                                                                                                              79       5

Breast Breasts                                                                                           36        8

Ear Ears                                                                                                         5         12

Eye 20 Eyes 46                                                                                        66        6

Face                                                                                                              97       3

Hand 107 Hands 62                                                                            169        1

Hair                                                                                                              41       6

Head                                                                                                            96       4

Leg Legs                                                                                                     56       7

Mouth                                                                                                        30       10

Nose                                                                                                              9        11

Teeth Tooth                                                                                           34       9

House And Home in dreams

Bed                                                                                                            153      4

Bedroom                                                                                                   66       8

Door Doors Doorway                                                                        311      3

Floor                                                                                                         103      6

Home                                                                                                       134      5

House Houses                                                                                      412      1          4

Room Rooms                                                                                        390      2          8

Stair Stairs Steps                                                                                    98       7

Psyche/You in dreams

Decide 9 Decided 41 Decision 6                                                        56       18

Fear 58 Terrified 45 Scared Etc. 86                                              189      9

Feels 187 Feelings 244 Felt 424                                                     855      2          2

Happy                                                                                                           63       17

Heard Hear                                                                                                97       13

Keep Kept                                                                                                102      12

Knew 177 Know 106                                                                           283      6

Realise                                                                                                         38       19

Remember 104 Remembering 13                                                 117      11

Say 69 Saying 99 Talking 113 Talk                                              394      3         7

See 293 Seeing 411 Looking 373                                                1077    1          1

Sex Sexual Sexuality                                                                            94        14

Take Taking                                                                                           174      10

Tell Told                                                                                                  193      8

Think 72 Thinking 41 Thought 226                                            339      4          10

Tried Trying                                                                                           298      5          11

Want Wanting Wanted                                                                      200      7

Watch Watching                                                                                      71       16

Wonder 47 Wondering 26                                                                  73       15

Orientation and Size in dreams

Above                                                                                                       46        10

Behind                                                                                                    100      9

Bottom                                                                                                     44        11

Down                                                                                                      404      2          5

High                                                                                                         100      9

Large And Big                                                                                       296      3          13

Left                                                                                                            166      5

Low                                                                                                               21        13

Right                                                                                                          130      7

Side                                                                                                             149      6

Small                                                                                                           171      4

Top                                                                                                              115      8

Under                                                                                                           40        12

Up                                                                                                                424      1          3

Life Events in dreams

Birth Born                                                                                                   23        3

Death Dying Dead Died                                                                       276      1

Married Marriage Wedding                                                                65       2

Animals in dreams

Bear 15            Bears 4                                                                             19        4

Bull                                                                                                               14        5

Cat                                                                                                               24        3

Cow                                                                                                              9          6

Dog     51 Dogs 14                                                                                 65        1

Elephant                                                                                                  19        4

Horse 30 Horses 16                                                                           46        2

Lion                                                                                                              5          8

Monkey                                                                                                      4          9

Mouse                                                                                                         2          10

Pig                                                                                                                1          11

Wolf                                                                                                            7          7

Colours in dreams

Red                                                                                                        52        5

Orange                                                                                                    2          9

Yellow                                                                                                  13        8

Green                                                                                                   59        4

Blue                                                                                                      61        3

Violet                                                                                                     1          10

Gold                                                                                                     26        6

Silver                                                                                                  14        7

Black                                                                                                  86        2

White                                                                                              101         1