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This is a study of some specific dream problems suggested by Freud's Traumdeutung. 190 dreams of five subjects were available. The problems were as follows: (1) Does compensation of imagery occur in dreams, or is the imagery characteristic of the individual's waking life the most prominent in his dreams? No evidence for compensation was found. Thompson further makes the statement that there is a correlation between waking and dream imagery in a given person; this is contradictory to the results obtained by other workers, Calkins, Hacker, Weed, etc., who find that visual imagery is the most prominent in dreams in all cases. (2) Is there a relation between the type of imagery and the rate at which a dream becomes forgotten? Thompson finds that the type of imagery most characteristic of waking life has