I found a web site on dream research at http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/
called, "The Quantitative Study of Dreams." After a brief look, it seems
to be a very good site.
I found the following article on this site. It describes research on a
subject that has come up on TIPS before: what people who have been blind
since birth dream about.
Jeff
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Hurovitz, C., Dunn, S., Domhoff, G. W., & Fiss, H. (1999). The dreams of
blind men and women: A replication and extension of previous findings.
Dreaming, 9, 183-193
Abstract
Drawing on a sample of 372 dreams from 15 blind adults, this paper
presents two separate analyses that replicate and extend findings from
previous studies. The first analysis employed DreamSearch, a software
program designed for use with dream narratives, to examine the
appearance of the five sensory modalities. It revealed that those blind
since birth or very early childhood had (1) no visual imagery and (2) a
very high percentage of gustatory, olfactory, and tactual sensory
references. The second analysis found that both male and female
participants differed from their sighted counterparts in the same ways
on several Hall and Van de Castle (1966) coding categories, including a
high percentage of locomotion/transportation dreams that contained at
least one dreamer-involved misfortune. The findings on sensory
references and dreamer-involved misfortunes in locomotion/transportation
dreams are interpreted as evidence for the continuity between dream
content and waking cognition.
Full Text at: http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Articles/hurovitz_1999a.html
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