The relationship between attitudes towards dreams and creativity, (ideational fluency) was investigated in ninety-six subjects utilizing Domino's Questionnaire About Dreams (QAD) and a modified Wallach-Kogan battery. Although item analyses failed to replicate earlier findings regarding the discriminative utility of the QAD with regards to creativity, a subsequent factor analysis revealed two dominant factors accounting for 52 percent of the variance. These factors correspond roughly to educated versus mystical beliefs regarding dream origin. Mystical dream origin correlated negatively with one measure of ideational fluency. Results are discussed with regard to the future utility of the QAD in identifying creative individuals, and in clarifying the relationship between dreams and both creativity and psychopathology.
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