factors that influence dreams by: lauren schone, bong sok, carrie myers, lauren hollinger
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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE DREAMS
by: Lauren Schone, Bong Sok, Carrie Myers, Lauren Hollinger
INTRODUCTION
DREAM: a sequence of images, etc. passing through a sleeping
person’s mind
~ dreams intrigue because they have a mystical and illusive
quality
~ but do certain factors cause specific dreams?
SLEEPING
~ essential part of human life
~ one quarter of sleep time is spent dreaming, that’s seven and a half
years!!!
Sleep Stages
DREAM THEORISTS
FREUD and JUNG
Freudian Function
~ tool for wish-fufillment~ two occurrences during
sleeping~ dreams as “guardians”
Jungian Juxtaposition
~ worked closely with Freud and his ideas
~ believed in “spiritual” aspect of unconscious
WHY DREAM?
~ helps brain grow during young ages
~ strengthens connections between certain areas of
brains
~ sleep deprivation and dream deprivation one
night will result in lots of REM sleep the next night
~ this is why we believe that those who do not
sleep well one night will have many dreams the
next night
MEN vs. WOMEN
~women and men have different dream themes
that relate to pleasantness, setting,
sexuality, and stereotypical dreams
STRESS
~ we dream because the mind is still processing
issues and concerns
~ tension and unresolved struggles follow into sleep
~ people incorporate their stress into dreams
~stress increases dream emotionality
~ more stress =more dreams (that means
architect majors)
EXPERIMENT
~ based upon learned information we have chosen categories to examine in relation to
dreams~ comparison of these
categories will hopefully expose dream patterns
~ sex / gender~ stress
~ number of hours slept~ number of dreams per
night~ academic major~ residence hall~ dream theme
RESULTS~male vs. female
~dorm~major
~Spearman Rank Test
OTHER OBSERVATIONS
~the number of hours slept did not appear to affect the number of
dreams~the greatest number of dreams recorded in one
night was five
~sleep rating and stress levels both ranged from
one to ten~most stress appeared to
be due to school, then friends, then family (which makes sense since we are
in college)
FACTORS THAT AFFECT RESULTS
~the number of people surveyed
~honesty of participants~limited dream type list
HOW WOULD WE DO IT DIFFERENTLY?
~survey more people and the same number of
people in each category (sex, dorm, major)
~expand list of dream types
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