Greetings dreamers.
I am preparing for my Psychology dissertation for my final year of University. The title of this thread says it laconically, but my main research question right at the moment is: "Can a common external auditory stimulus produce similar dream experiences across different people?" My predictions are that it will, and in order to verify that, I will run some experiments here in the University's sleep lab, and then analyse the data using Q-Methodology.
That means that I need lots of fine data for my Q-sample, notably, how dreams are subjectively experienced. I thought I'd look here for some useful data; I've yet to run this past my supervisor, but this indeed seems to me like a fine source. I'm using information obtained from academic literature on this subject nature as well.
So anyone who is willing to help me here is greatly appreciated. All I need are some sample dream experiences, preferably your most recent ones, from which I can generate Q-sample statements. The question I'm asking you is: "How did it feel to have your most recent dream?"
If you feel like putting forward a contribution, then please provide your most recent dream report, in as much detail as you can. You may post it here. Remember that I am emphasising how the dream was subjectively experienced, not just what you dreamed about. If you can, try and summarise the overall feeling of the dream in a single statement, at the end of your dream report, and label your statement as: "My Statement". If you have a recent dream experience in which an external sound was incorporated into the dream, then that would also be of interest to me, but like I said, my main source of data on that is the academic literature.
My dissertation properly starts in September, but I still need to do adequate research beforehand, since creating a Q-sample is a time consuming process of refinement. I may also need to perform a pilot of the main experiment next month. The Q-sample also needs to be broadly representative of the issue at hand, so for this reason, I will only accept one dream report per person at the moment.
OK, many thanks, and I look forward to reading some dream reports.
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