metadata

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: series
      dtype: string
    - name: description
      dtype: string
    - name: dreams
      dtype: string
    - name: gender
      dtype: string
    - name: year
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 21526822
      num_examples: 22415
  download_size: 11984242
  dataset_size: 21526822
license: apache-2.0
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

DreamBank - Dreams

The dataset is a collection of ~20 k textual reports of dreams, originally scraped from the DreamBank databased by mattbierner. The DreamBank reports are divided into series, which are collections of individuals or research projects/groups that have gathered the dreams.

Content

The dataset revolves around three main features:

dreams: the content of each dream report.
series: the series to which a report belongs
description: a brief description of the series
gender: the gender of the individual(s) in the series
year: the time window of the recordings

Series distribution

The following is a summary of (alphabetically ordered) DreamBank's series together with their total amount of dream reports.

alta: 422
angie: 48
arlie: 212
b: 3114
b-baseline: 250
b2: 1138
bay_area_girls_456: 234
bay_area_girls_789: 154
bea1: 223
bea2: 63
blind-f: 238
blind-m: 143
bosnak: 53
chris: 100
chuck: 75
dahlia: 24
david: 166
dorothea: 899
ed: 143
edna: 19
elizabeth: 1707
emma: 1221
emmas_husband: 72
esther: 110
hall_female: 681
jasmine1: 39
jasmine2: 269
jasmine3: 259
jasmine4: 94
jeff: 87
joan: 42
kenneth: 2021
lawrence: 206
mack: 38
madeline1-hs: 98
madeline2-dorms: 186
madeline3-offcampus: 348
madeline4-postgrad: 294
mark: 23
melissa: 89
melora: 211
melvin: 128
merri: 315
miami-home: 171
miami-lab: 274
midwest_teens-f: 111
midwest_teens-m: 83
nancy: 44
natural_scientist: 234
norman: 1235
norms-f: 490
norms-m: 491
pegasus: 1093
peru-f: 381
peru-m: 384
phil1: 106
phil2: 220
phil3: 180
physiologist: 86
ringo: 16
samantha: 63
seventh_graders: 69
toby: 33
tom: 27
ucsc_women: 81
vickie: 35
vietnam_vet: 98
wedding: 65
west_coast_teens: 89 More Information needed