Dream Survey for Psychology Class

Age: 31 years, 351 days.
Gender: ALL MAN
Ethnicity: robot

__x__1. Falling

__x__2. Being attacked or pursued

____3. Trying repeatedly to do something

____4. School, teachers, studying

__x__5. Sexual experiences

____6. Arriving too late

____7. Eating

____8. Being frozen with fright

__x__9. Death of a loved person

___10. Being locked up

___11. Finding money

___12. Swimming

___13. Snakes

___14. Being dressed inappropriately

___15. Being smothered

___16. Being nude in public

__x_17. Fire

___18. Failing an examination

__x_19. Flying

__x_20. Seeing yourself as dead

1. Most commonly dream about being tortured/killed or family members dying.

2. Dream least of flying.

3. Age, gender, and culture contribute to how we dream inasmuch as they provide the filters we use to render our brains' dream activity (semi-)intelligible. Without the context of experiences, worries, and the cultural scaffolding on which they hang, many of the above categories of dream aren't even possible. For instance, there's not some universal notion of appropriate dress, and thus dreams of being dressed inappropriately are entirely culturally contingent.

I tend to fall somewhere between the biological and cognitive perspectives, though I suppose the biological one would be primary. Our brains do odd things while we sleep, and some of those odd things involve various brain-bits activating in such a way that invites us to impose order on it. In other words, the cognitive perspective may be true enough, but it's likely a byproduct of the biological.
 
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: Black/Panamanian/Portuguese

__x__1. Falling

__x__2. Being attacked or pursued

____3. Trying repeatedly to do something

____4. School, teachers, studying

____5. Sexual experiences

__x__6. Arriving too late

__x__7. Eating

____8. Being frozen with fright

__x__9. Death of a loved person

___10. Being locked up

___11. Finding money

__x_12. Swimming

___13. Snakes

___14. Being dressed inappropriately

_x__15. Being smothered

___16. Being nude in public

___17. Fire

___18. Failing an examination

_x__19. Flying

___20. Seeing yourself as dead



1) Which one dream theme was most common (most frequently occurring in your dreams)?

Swimming

2) the least common?

Eating

3) What are your thoughts on how people might differ on their responses according to age, gender, culture and so on.

I imagine white folk dream about making mad money and ruling the world. Old people probably dream about the good ol' days. I think females probably dream about tampon commercials. ------ More appropriate answer - I imagine that people of a more privelaged upbringing would be more likely to respond with dreaming of money. People who have lived for longer than 40 years probably would dream mostly of times passed. A female probably dreams about certain things that should not be on tv and are offensive to the opposite sex.


Which dream perspective do you mostly agree on?

· The cognitive view sees dreams as information processing; they help us

sort through everyday experiences, solve problems and think creatively.--- this one, kind of
 
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Dream Survey


Using the following list of common dream themes, please place a check mark next to each one you have ever dreamed about.


__x__1. Falling

____2. Being attacked or pursued

____3. Trying repeatedly to do something

____4. School, teachers, studying

__x__5. Sexual experiences

__x__6. Arriving too late

____7. Eating

____8. Being frozen with fright

__x__9. Death of a loved person

___10. Being locked up

___11. Finding money

___12. Swimming

___13. Snakes

___14. Being dressed inappropriately

___15. Being smothered

___16. Being nude in public

___17. Fire

___18. Failing an examination

___19. Flying

___20. Seeing yourself as dead



1) Which one dream theme was most common (most frequently occurring in your dreams)? Arriving late since I often take a nap before work and dream that I'm late as fuck.

2) the least common? Death of a loved one.

3) What are your thoughts on how people might differ on their responses according to age, gender, culture and so on. Dreams are extensions of your personal experiences so they're going to wildly fluctuate depending on several variables including the ones aforementioned.


Which dream perspective to you mostly agree on?
I agree with Biological Perspective the most.
 
Age: 33
Gender: Godly
Ethnicity: White/Hispanic/other shit

__x__1. Falling

__x_2. Being attacked or pursued

__x_3. Trying repeatedly to do something

____4. School, teachers, studying

__x_5. Sexual experiences

__x_6. Arriving too late

__x__7. Eating

____8. Being frozen with fright

__x_9. Death of a loved person

_x__10. Being locked up

___11. Finding money

___12. Swimming

___13. Snakes

___14. Being dressed inappropriately

___15. Being smothered

___16. Being nude in public

_x__17. Fire

___18. Failing an examination

___19. Flying

___20. Seeing yourself as dead



1) Which one dream theme was most common (most frequently occurring in your dreams)?
I'll have to be honest. after years of RARELY ever having any sexually themed dreams, I'd have to say that it is now at this point overtaken my next most common theme which was me fighting something or being attacked and death of a loved one.

2) the least common?
From the rest of the list that I can remember having, I'd say fire.

3) What are your thoughts on how people might differ on their responses according to age, gender, culture and so on.
Different experiences cause different stimuli to be reacted to.

Which dream perspective to you mostly agree on?

· The psychoanalytic view (the wish-fulfillment theory) says that dreams are disguised symbols of repressed desires. It has received little scientific support.

· The biological perspective (the activation-synthesis hypothesis) argues that dreams are simply unimportant by-products of random stimulation of brain cells.

· The cognitive view sees dreams as information processing; they help us

sort through everyday experiences, solve problems and think creatively.

Mostly the "biological perspective".

P.S.

I was gonna say almost exactly what Hates said about the last question (not all as flowery though)but who wants to follow what that fag says. So you get my "mostly" answer.
 
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Age: 15
Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic
____1. Falling

_x__2. Being attacked or pursued

____3. Trying repeatedly to do something

_x__4. School, teachers, studying

_x__5. Sexual experiences

____6. Arriving too late

____7. Eating

_x__8. Being frozen with fright

_x__9. Death of a loved person

___10. Being locked up

___11. Finding money

___12. Swimming

___13. Snakes

___14. Being dressed inappropriately

_x_15. Being smothered

___16. Being nude in public

___17. Fire

___18. Failing an examination

___19. Flying

___20. Seeing yourself as dead

1) Recently, I've stabbed a guy in the neck with a key and fought off an insane woman trying to kill me. I'll go with being attacked/fighting. I lost the latter fight though.

2) The least is sexual experiences.

3) Well, dreams are going to vary for all of those categories of people due to different wants, experiences, thoughts, etc.

Mostly just the psychoanalytic view.... but I don't think dreams are these all-time symbols that show us the way of life. Just little things, like they could be symbolic towards what's going on in your life, or something you've been thinking a lot about recently.
 
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