24 patients at the age of 10-18 years with different forms of epilepsy and 10 healthy children and juveniles were examined. The analysis of dreams testified both intensification and quantitative peculiarities of dreams in epileptic patients. Their specific features were: frightening character, stereotypy, brightness and contrastness of colour images as well as psychosensory disorders and sensations of different modalities, peculiar and original topic. The dreams characteristic for epilepsy arise frequently long before the objective clinical manifestation and might serve as one of the important markers of cerebral epileptisation.
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