The manifest content of dreams of patients who attempted suicide are compared with similar data from acutely disturbed nonsuicidal patients. The comparison was made according to parameters of content analysis of manifest dreams derived from the schema of various authors. Two differences between the groups were found to be statistically significant: 1, explicit references to actual or threatened death, or dead persons; 2, themes of violence of destruction. Although oriented toward an area of general clinical usefulness, it seems that this type of study may be even more useful when specifically applied to suicide.