Kinga Grzywacz: A Psychological Analysis

Studies have shown prominence of themes in typical dreams but whether or not they hold a personal meaning or simply reflect emotional apprehensions are still up for debate between researchers. Based on the knowledge of reoccurring themes for dreams, a Typical Dream Questionnaire, or TDQ, was created. In order to create the TDQ, researchers did extensive investigations on particular themes and then applied cross-cultural comparisons in order to make the questions for the questionnaire. Ever since it was used, researchers have found that the answers to the questionnaire are widely different between

Every person around the world has dreaming about something once in a while. When they sleep, they will dream sometimes. A lot of people think that dream is an illusion which is made by our brain because that is our desire. It is just like poll that conducted by Newsweek, a major 43% of Americans believe that dreams reveal unconscious desires and wishes. However, there are also people who think that dream is an event which will happen in the near future; whether that is on tomorrow, on day after tomorrow, or on next year. This distinction brings out a question what is the true meaning of the dream we have.

While laboratory research is the most common way to collect data on dreams, Domhoff recognizes that dreams can’t be forced to happen and there is a risk is taking the accounts written in dream journals as 100% accurate. Many times participants may decide to omit certain information for reasons such as embarrassment.

In the article entitled "Do dreams really mean anything?," David B. Feldman discusses the scientific opinions and theories about dreams, also speaks about people's understanding of it, if they really show us the future or what will happen in people's lives and if they really refer to any meaningful thing in people's live. Firstly, the author talks about the ancient Egyptian thoughts about dreams and their religious beliefs about it, also he talks about "Sigmund Freud" investigation of dreams in his book. Furthermore, Feldman points out the meaning and the truth about "dreams dictionary "and the symbols of dreams. However, he shows the scientists and "neuroscientists" assumptions about dreams also he mentions the importance of sleeping and its

“People who remember their dreams show different brain activity. Previous research found that people who remember more dreams also react more to sounds during sleep (and while awake) than people who don’t remember many dreams.” (By Sarah Klein). The book The Giver by Lois Lowry has a similar theme of dreams, because in the book, the kids and the adults had to share their dreams. This was to make sure that they do not receive too many memories that they are not supposed to have.

    Everybody dreams during his lifetime. It is a part of human nature that we experience almost everyday. Dreams can be lost memories, past events and even fantasies that we relive during our unconscious hours of the day. As we sleep at night, a new world shifts into focus that seems to erase the physical and moral reality of our own. It is an individual's free mind that is privately exposed, allowing a person to roam freely in his own universe. As we dream, it seems that we cannot distinguish right from wrong or normal from abnormal and, therefore, commit acts that we would not have done in a realistic society. Perhaps Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,

This research analyzed the effects that traumatic events in life have on our dreams. Two pieces of research were reviewed for this paper. One is a study in which children examine their own dreams and interpret the meanings; the other is about people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) who experience nightmares after experiencing emotional trauma. These two journals suggest that significant events and feelings people experience in the past have a direct effect on the content of our dreams.

Dreams have occurred for many years, and still stay a mystery. In both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, dreams were considered messages from gods that would be interpreted by dream interpreters so people can act according to what the gods wished. However, as generations developed, dream interpretation was ignored and finally revived in the 19th century when many books were published, mostly explaining dreams. Throughout those books, many attitudes were shown based on how the author felt about dream interpretation. Similarly, in two texts, The Mysterious Test, and What’s in a Dream? The History of Dream Interpretation, both authors have similar attitudes toward dream interpretation. Both authors feel that dreams relate to your good actions

The T-test looked at the null hypothesis that personality traits are not statistically significant when measuring peoples ability to recall their dreams. It was founded that from the sample Extraversion, Stability and Conscientiousness were not significant as all predictors were above the significance level of .05. Extraversion had had a moderate positive, non-significant correlation. Stability had a negative moderate non-significant correlation and Conscientiousness had a very peak positive non-significant correlation. The strongest predictor for the outcome variables was openness. The result is not surprising as hypothesized from previous literature if a person is open to the experience of dreaming they are more likely to remember their dreams.

A research was conducted almost two decades ago from today, which focused on the boundaries and dream content in an individual. This article supports the concept of what is within our dreams that related to personality and how they produce it over time. Using the questionnaire, they measured the differences in the structure of the dreams that people can have and focused each boundary identified in the dream they experienced. What was surprising in this was

This study examines the correlation between our dream states and our psychological well-being conducted by Nicholas Pesant and Antonio Zadra. They had two hypotheses they were testing in this study. The first one they tested is does the participants psychological well-being scores correlate with their positive or negative dream characteristics? The second one was would their dream characteristics change over the two different time periods of the study if the psychological well-being scores reduced? In the main body of this review will be discussing the method, process, results and a discussion about this study.

Malinowski and Horton, researchers of dream continuity, look into how dreams reflect continuity to the dreamer’s real-life behaviors, in addition to when this happens in the process of sleep: early or late-night dreams. The researchers note that dreams that occur near the beginning of sleep could be significantly influences by the experiences that have occurred just a few hours before sleep. In addition, it is also emphasized that even though dreams that occur later in sleep tend to have more emotionality, this is not necessarily an outcome. The outcome could be a result of having a continuous dream that contains walking life experiences. It is argued that there might be additional variables which impact the differences of emotionality in early

Statistical validity. There was more negative emotional content, t(283) = 2.19, p < .03, and positive emotional content, t(347) = 2.15, p < .03, in bad dream narratives, as indicated by t-tests. A standardized measure of effect was independently calculated. Although statistically significant, the effect sizes, (r = 0.13 and r = 0.11, respectively), indicate the difference in emotionality between dream types is very small and may not be practically

To many people, dreams are the thoughts that occur while sleeping, having almost mystic qualities. For millennia the significance of dreams has escaped even the brightest of philosophers and intellectuals. Many people have speculated about why people dream and what meanings the dreams have but in recent times two theories have gained credibility in answering those questions. The first theory is Sigmund Freuds and the other is known as the cognitive theory of dreams also known as biological determinism.

Memories always play an important role in life. They are always a true attendant of life when you need a friend who always talks about your most wanted moment, memory act as a friend. When childhood is recalled and compared with present days, one feels good and the good memories are the timeless treasure of life. Nobody wants to follow their unpleasant part of memory in the present activities basically follow positive, precious happy moments which give good courage for future. When you woke up, you sleep, your eyes moves or stick on one thing you always recall a memory maybe it’s a random memory that come in your mind but it is a memory and nobody ignores it or nobody can stop it. The haze images and strong happiness part of childhood memories always take placed in mind sometime, even a single word woke a memory that you forgot. We keep up our positive self-idea by attempting to think on positive recollections of the past. We review things either from the previous month or from