What Dreams Are Made Of

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Byline: Lyndsay Moss

Children's dreams are affected by what they watch on television and the books they read, a survey revealed yesterday.

The Dream Lab experiment found that 66 per cent of children said their dreams were influenced by their TV viewing habits and 44 per cent said books had an impact.

Events happening during their day also affected the dreams of 51 per cent of children according to the survey commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals as part of the Frontiers: Science in Libraries campaign.

The questionnaires, which examined links between aspects of ''waking life'' such as reading books …