This article examines the content of dreams from British officers held in Laufen, a Nazi POW camp, during the years 1940–1942. The POW's dreams have more content concerning battles, imprisonment, escape, and food than the Hall and van de Castle male norms from the same era. The POW dreams do not have as much of any type of social interaction. Their dreams contain less friendliness, sexuality, and even less aggression than the male norms. However, aggression was unusually extreme when it occurred, and its content was linked to previous battles rather than camp life. POW's had less good fortune or misfortune in their dreams along with frequent bland dreams about the tedium of the camp. Their dream characters included higher percentages of males, family members, and the dead; they had fewer friends or animal characters than the male norms—perhaps simply reflecting who they were in contact with at the camp. Overall, these POW's patterns resembled other prison populations rather than other post-combatants, which may be because this particular group was captured early during WWII.

This article explores the content of the somniloquies of Dion McGregor, the most extensive sleep talker ever recorded, and compares these with dream content from normative male dreams on the Hall and van de Castle Content Scales and Hobson Bizarreness Scales. On the Hall and van de Castle Scales, the somniloquies contained significantly more female characters relative to males than for the norms, more familiar characters and friends, but fewer family members. The dreamer-as-character was much likelier to be either a befriender or an aggressor than in the normative dreams but much less likely to engage in physical aggression specifically. There was less aggression, friendliness, or sex per character in McGregor's narratives, as well as less of all three of these types of interaction total than for the norms, but much more self-negativity. There were a lower percentage of negative emotions, good fortune, and success, but the somniloquies were similar to the norms in their levels of misfortune and failure. On the Hobson Bizarreness Scales, the McGregor somniloquies were not differentiated from dreams on three of six scales-having similar levels of discontinuity of plot, characters, objects, and actions but had slightly fewer incongruities of plot, and many fewer instances of incongruity or uncertainly of thought. These findings are discussed in terms of presumed brain activation differences-more frontal activation-and also in terms of McGregor's personal idiosyncrasies.