BRIEF Research Survey: Gender, Handedness, and Lucidity

**DuB** · 03-31-2008 08:09 AM

Hey guys. I have created a pretty brief online survey, the primary goals of which are to investigate the correlations between lucid dreaming frequency & gender as well as lucid dreaming frequency & handedness. A small number of other, unrelated factors are explored as well. It should take about 5 minutes to complete, 10 at the most. I will be collecting data for one month and the results will ultimately be posted in the Research Team forum. It is anonymous and confidential. Also, feel free to skip any question for any reason (although ideally I'd prefer if you didn't

). Females and lefties are especially encouraged to participate!!

Click here to take the survey!

In my time on the board I have tended to notice that females are more likely to be "naturals," and also that they tend to recall more dreams on average. This survey should directly test this hypothesis.

The handedness investigation is more exploratory - I have not noticed any such pattern between handedness and lucid dreaming frequency or ability (probably because I never asked). However, there is a large amount of evidence which suggests that the brains of left-handers are organized significantly differently from those of right-handers, and even that left-handers tend to process information in a different fashion than right-handers. It seems reasonable enough that handedness could potentially play a role in lucid dream frequency, hence this survey.

Finally, there are a few additional questions on the survey such as parents' education level & estimated yearly income, dream journal use, etc. These are also exploratory and I will be looking for any significant correlations at all. Also I will investigate the correlation between dream journal use, dream recall, and lucid dream frequency (obviously expecting dream journal use to be a major predictor of both).

My goal is to get at least 100 participants. The more responses I get, the easier it will be to find any significant correlations present in the data. Please fill out the survey only one time. If you have any questions at all about this project, please post them in the thread. Hopefully we can all learn something by the time this is over. Thank you in advance!

**DuB** · 03-31-2008 10:47 PM

Alright, I just posted this last night and I've already gotten 16 responses, so I'm pretty pleased about that. Keep 'em coming! Females, lefties, and "naturals" are especially encouraged to participate.