| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Outline for a theory on the nature and functions of dreaming. | Dreaming | 1996 | 195 |
| 2 | A content analysis of bizarre elements in dreams. | Dreaming | 1995 | 187 |
| 3 | Emotions in dream and waking event reports. | Dreaming | 1991 | 183 |
| 4 | Sleeping dreams, waking hallucinations, and the central nervous system. | Dreaming | 1998 | 155 |
| 5 | Bizarreness of the dreams and daydreams reported by individuals with thin and thick boundaries. | Dreaming | 1997 | 149 |
| 6 | Self-organization theory of dreaming. | Dreaming | 1993 | 145 |
| 7 | Dream recall and major depression: A preliminary report. | Dreaming | 1995 | 135 |
| 8 | Questionnaires and diaries as research instruments in dream research: Methodological issues. | Dreaming | 2002 | 130 |
| 9 | Dream content and personality: Thick vs. Thin boundaries. | Dreaming | 1999 | 129 |
| 10 | The Typical Dreams of Canadian University Students. | Dreaming | 2003 | 128 |
| 11 | The relationship of nightmare frequency to nightmare suffering with implications for treatment and research. | Dreaming | 1992 | 127 |
| 12 | Mood regulation, dreaming and nightmares: Evaluation of a desensitization function for REM sleep. | Dreaming | 1993 | 125 |
| 13 | Vestibular dreams: The effect of rocking on dream mentation. | Dreaming | 1996 | 125 |
| 14 | Identifying types of impactful dreams: A replication. | Dreaming | 1996 | 121 |
| 15 | The impact of insomnia and sleep disturbances on depression and suicidality. | Dreaming | 2006 | 119 |
| 16 | Are the effects of dream interpretation on session quality, insight, and emotions due to the dream itself, to projection, or to the interpretation process? | Dreaming | 1993 | 118 |
| 17 | Behavioral effects of nightmares and their correlations to personality patterns. | Dreaming | 2001 | 116 |
| 18 | Measuring dream self-reflectiveness: A comparison of two approaches. | Dreaming | 1994 | 115 |
| 19 | Personality and dreaming: The dreams of people with very thick or very thin boundaries. | Dreaming | 1991 | 113 |
| 20 | Austrian dream behavior: Results of a representative population survey. | Dreaming | 1998 | 113 |
| 21 | The nightmare: A failure in dream function. | Dreaming | 1991 | 112 |
| 22 | The relationship between dream bizarreness and imagination: Artifact or essence? | Dreaming | 1993 | 112 |
| 23 | Does early-night REM dream content reliably reflect presleep state of mind? | Dreaming | 1996 | 110 |
| 24 | Determinants and mental health effects of dream recall among children living in traumatic conditions. | Dreaming | 1997 | 110 |
| 25 | Dreams that work: The relation of dream incorporation to adaptation to stressful events. | Dreaming | 1991 | 109 |
| 26 | Current concerns and REM-dreams: A laboratory study of dream incubation. | Dreaming | 1997 | 105 |
| 27 | The effects of dream length on the relationship between primary process in dreams and creativity. | Dreaming | 1991 | 100 |
| 28 | Effects of somatosensory stimulation on dream content in gymnasts and control participants: Evidence of vestibulomotor adaptation in REM sleep. | Dreaming | 1998 | 100 |
| 29 | Reflection during REM dreaming. | Dreaming | 1992 | 99 |
| 30 | EEG correlates of dream recall in depressed outpatients and healthy controls. | Dreaming | 1998 | 98 |
| 31 | Sleep and dreaming characteristics of frequent nightmare subjects in a university population. | Dreaming | 1994 | 97 |
| 32 | A psycholinguistic method for analyzing two modalities of thought in dream reports. | Dreaming | 1996 | 94 |
| 33 | Definitions of dream: A paradigm for comparing field descriptive specific studies of dream. | Dreaming | 2001 | 94 |
| 34 | The collection of home and laboratory dreams by means of an instrumental response technique. | Dreaming | 1995 | 91 |
| 35 | The on-going significance of significant dreams: The case of the bodiless head. | Dreaming | 1999 | 91 |
| 36 | The pattern of self-reflectiveness in dream reports. | Dreaming | 1993 | 90 |
| 37 | Waking self-understanding, REM-dream self representation, and cognitive ability variables at ages 5–8. | Dreaming | 1991 | 87 |
| 38 | Evidence for the preferential incorporation of emotional waking-life experiences into dreams. | Dreaming | 2014 | 77 |
| 39 | Dreams as the reflection of our waking concerns and abilities: A critique of the problem-solving paradigm in dream research. | Dreaming | 1992 | 73 |
| 40 | A new neurocognitive theory of dreams. | Dreaming | 2001 | 72 |
| 41 | How metaphor structures dreams: The theory of conceptual metaphor applied to dream analysis. | Dreaming | 1993 | 67 |
| 42 | The day-residue and dream-lag effects: A literature review and limited replication of two temporal effects in dream formation. | Dreaming | 1992 | 64 |
| 43 | Making connections in a safe place: Is dreaming psychotherapy? | Dreaming | 1995 | 64 |
| 44 | Influence of gender and age in aggressive dream content of Spanish children and adolescents. | Dreaming | 2005 | 64 |
| 45 | Nightmare frequency as a function of age, gender, and September 11, 2001: Findings from an Internet questionnaire. | Dreaming | 2006 | 64 |
| 46 | Changes in the kinesthetic content of dreams following somatosensory stimulation of leg muscles during REM sleep. | Dreaming | 1993 | 63 |
| 47 | Increased Mastery Elements Associated With Imagery Rehearsal Treatment for Nightmares in Sexual Assault Survivors With PTSD. | Dreaming | 2004 | 63 |
| 48 | We do not dream of the 3 R's: Implications for the nature of dreaming mentation. | Dreaming | 2000 | 62 |
| 49 | Characteristics of chronic nightmares in a trauma-exposed treatment-seeking sample. | Dreaming | 2007 | 61 |
| 50 | REM dreaming in the transition from late childhood to adolescence: A longitudinal study. | Dreaming | 2005 | 59 |
