HW1: Survey Questions

            The research paper I’m currently working on entitled “The Influences of Dreams to People’s Decisions: A Diagnostic Approach” has already provided the significance of dreaming to people’s lives. The first part of the said paper has enumerated the importance of studying dreams which include providing scientifically founded explanations regarding this mysterious work of nature, diagnosing the effects of dreams to a person’s way of thinking, and acquiring sufficient knowledge about how dreams work. Mentioned in the research paper are the evidences that the study of dreams had already taken its advancement towards various scientific fields of study, one of which is the existence of famous scientists and psychologists who specialize in dream-related studies like oneirology, psychoanalytic dream interpretation, dream analysis, and oneiromancy. This research is important to the dream fanatics who are fascinated with the interesting realm of dreams, to people who are frequently bothered by the mysteries of their dreams and have been affected by these, to the readers to whom I purposely wanted to sow information about dreams affecting decisions in order to awake their awareness regarding their dreams and to help them make correlations between their sleeping and waking lives, and to the future researchers with whom I wanted to contribute these ideas about dreams and how dreams influence decisions. So far, my paper has already provided instances where dreams really do provide solutions to problems like the contributions of dreams to numerous scientific breakthroughs and various works of art. As I delved deeper unto this subject, I observed that although there are many articles that can support the synthesis that dreams affect decisions, there is still no specific study or research that focuses on the connection between a person’s dreams and how his dreams may contribute to the decisions that he may come up with later on. This fact encouraged me to continue researching and gave me the feeling that this research is significant to the dream-related fields of study.

            In order to confirm the results of my study, I come up with survey questions that might be helpful in extracting the real-life scenarios and views of people regarding their dreams:

“In what ways do your dreams influence your way of thinking?”

“What are the frequent themes of your dreams?”

“How will you classify the scenarios that are frequently occurring in your dreams?”

“In what ways do your dreams help you in solving your problems?”

“What do you feel whenever you do not experience dreaming for a night or two or whenever you cannot recall your dreams?”

“How does the absence of dreams affect your mood or your way of thinking for a day?”

“What do you observe whenever your dreams reflect the current concerns that you have that are pressing you to make decisions?”

“Can you describe how the scenarios in your dreams affect or relate to your succeeding decisions?”

            The above questions were purposely made for people under the age of majority (18) and above who have sufficient recollections and understanding of their dreams. These people can rationalize clearly and are capable enough to make relations and distinctions between their dreams and realities. I chose this kind of people because they have a reasonable knowledge about their own dreams and they can also enumerate their dreams’ effects on their own lives.

            At the end of the survey, I expect that I will come up with responses that are significant enough to confirm the research that I have done so far. I am open to the possibility that some of the respondents may not give concrete answers because of the complexity of this study and also because of the limited recollections of people about their dreams. Some people don’t take time to ponder on their dreams unless they create disturbances to a person’s feelings and that is when the limitation comes out. I might only acquire few responses that accurately suit my objectives but, still, I believe that such answers are going to be valuable enough to support my research.

            These survey questions are relevant because the responses to these questions can serve as significant confirmations and additional foundations of my research. The responses may also help me to diagnose some limitations of my study that I still have to work on and improve.