Dream Incubation Study- ONLINE

[Jen555]

I'm in my final year at King's University College (affiliated with University of Western Ontario), and I'm doing a thesis on Dream Incubation, with Prof. Imants Baruss. Due to the fact that it takes place entirely online, I'm able to recruit participants/ volunteers who are not students. The study seems to be unable to work on Internet Explorer, however it works quite well on newer versions of Safari and Firefox! A little bit about the study: The study starts out with participants filling out two self-report questionnaires related to personality, and beliefs about Consciousness and reality. The second part of the study involves participants being asked to record their dreams online for up to 10 days, while trying to answer a brainteaser. Total time should be no more than 10 minutes in the morning, for recording dreams, and 10 minutes in the evening before bed trying to "solve" the brain teaser/problem. Participation in this study does not require you to come into the lab, as all participation takes place on the computer. Participants are free to withdraw from the study at any time. If you are interested in helping me out, please pm me and I can send you the link to participate! Thanks so much! Jen

[The Sandman]

What's the point of the study?

[SystemsLock]

Look, I'm sorry to break this to you, but what your professor does can hardly be considered research. In fact, I looked him up. From what I can tell he's obsessed with a spiritual connection to consciousnesses and the idea that quantum mechanics somehow plays a part in our brains. Not only are these ideas absurd but wholly outside the realm of legitimate science. He's written four books, including "Science as a Spiritual Practice" and "Authentic knowing: The convergence of science and spiritual aspiration". To say that religion and pseudoscience has blinded him would be an understatement. The fact alone that he is looking for tests subjects in an online forum should be telling enough.

[neurosisfish]

the whole spiritual connection may be far out there, this being a dedicated science forum, but as for the quantum mechanics i'm not too sure quantum properties probably play a huge part in everyday function. it's known that they do so in bird migration and photosynthesis. There is this whole theory of microtubules in the neurons having to do with that scary concept of "action at a distance" in quantum mechanics (quantum delocalization or something) seems a little sketchy at the moment, but I wouldnt throw that out the window.

[TheForgotten]

Quantum physics have shown strong links to spirituality ... I have no citations because I don't consider this a serious enough response at the moment. Moving on... anything experienced can be studied with research, including dreams. Psychology studies internalized processes and also the behaviors associated with it (amongst other things). Her prof who is implied to be inept, may or not be. However just because he may associate spirituality with science doesn't make his thinking far fetched. It's about time the bridge is gapped between the two sciences. There are measurable variables to be studied, especially in something like dreaming. On the other hand, maybe the prof is simply a dreamer and thinking far out of the box... but that's how new ideas, concepts, and theories are conceived... by out of the box thinking. See, now I'm curious to try it but being in the final year of college means it's not a longitudinal study which is a slight turn off. Very interesting overall.