Table 1. Auditory qualities of speech and other sounds.
| n | Information about auditory quality | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Was heard/clear/ as in normal life/ sound of | Only/ rather thoughts/ no sound | Description of sound/ voice quality | Described who said it (dreamer or other people) | Nothing stated/can’t recall | ||
| Cited verbatim | 171 | 34 | 4 | 22 | 107 | 4 |
| Only theme noted | 89 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 51 | 1 |
| No theme given& | 66 | 28 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 4 |
| Foreign language+ | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - |
| Laughing, singing etc | 17 | 10 | - | 3 | 4 | - |
| Other sounds | 59 | 37 | - | 14 | n/a | 8 |
| Total (%) | 407 | 128 (31.4%) | 12 (2.9%) | 61 (15.0%) | 189 (46.4%) | 17 (4.2%) |
*Categorization was forced and mutually exclusive, in the order from left to right for the five columns (categories 1 to 5).
+Speech in a foreign language not understood by the dreamer.
&Participants did not describe any theme, often stating that they could not recall what was said