TABLE 6.

Baseline and post-dream discussion empathy of dream sharer (n = 26) and dream discusser (n = 27) toward each other, and change in empathy from baseline for sharer and discusser.

	Baseline empathy		Post-dream discussion empathy		Paired samples t-test		Change in empathy from baseline		Independent samples t-test
Role	M	SD	M	SD	t	p(1-tail)	M	SD
Sharer	85.54	12.18	83.38	9.17	t(25) = 1.037	0.310	−2.15	10.59	t(51) = 2.017 p = 0.049 (2-tail)
Discusser	78.67	17.20	82.93	15.99	t(26) = 1.780	0.044	+4.26	12.44

Number of sharer/discusser pairs = 27, data were lost for one dream sharer. Baseline empathy of sharers and discussers did not differ significantly [t(51) = 1.672, p = 0.10].