---
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text2text-generation
- summarization
- text-classification
language:
- en
pretty_name: DreamBank
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

## Presentation

[DreamBank](https://dreambank.net/), an open corpus of more than 27,000 dream narratives, mostly written in English.

Annotations were produced using [dream-t5](https://huggingface.co/gustavecortal/dream-t5), a [LaMini-Flan-T5](https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI/LaMini-Flan-T5-248M) model finetuned on [Hall and Van de Castle annotations](https://dreams.ucsc.edu/Coding/) to predict character and emotion. I've introduced this task in this [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1282/):

> Gustave Cortal. 2024. Sequence-to-Sequence Language Models for Character and Emotion Detection in Dream Narratives. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 14717–14728, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.

## Citation

If you use this dataset, cite the original [DreamBank](https://dreambank.net/) dataset reference:

> Domhoff, G. W., & Schneider, A. (2008). Studying dream content using the archive and search engine on DreamBank.net. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(4), 1238-1247. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.06.010

## Dataset Structure

 - alta: 422
 - angie: 48
 - arlie: 212
 - b: 3116
 - 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
 - college-f: 160
 - college-m: 160
 - dahlia: 24
 - david: 166
 - dorothea: 900
 - ed: 143
 - edna: 19
 - elizabeth: 1707
 - emma: 1221
 - emmas_husband: 72
 - esther: 110
 - hall_female: 681
 - izzy-all: 4352
 - jasmine-all: 664
 - jeff: 87
 - joan: 42
 - kenneth: 2022
 - 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: 491
 - norms-m: 500
 - pegasus: 1093
 - peru-f: 382
 - peru-m: 384
 - phil1: 106
 - phil2: 220
 - phil3: 180
 - physiologist: 86
 - pregnancy_abortion: 226
 - ringo: 16
 - sally: 249
 - samantha: 63
 - seventh_graders: 69
 - toby: 33
 - tom: 27
 - ucsc_women: 81
 - van: 192
 - vickie: 35
 - vietnam_vet: 98
 - vietnam_vet2: 32
 - vietnam_vet3: 463
 - west_coast_teens: 89