Chapter 3
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
SUMMARY
This paper attempted to identify the
influences of dreams to a person's decisions. This research used the
descriptive and analytical methods wherein data from various articles were
compiled and presented in a comprehensive manner in order to insure the
understandability of this paper and numerous information were extracted from
different sources to assure continuous flow of the ideas and to avoid
deviations from the main topic. Data from interviews were also used to answer
the research question posed. The research findings are the following:
1. Dreams have
numerous purposes: they can solve a person’s problems, help people learn in their
sleep, develop one’s personality, mold the motivation system of the brain, and improve
a person’s mental health
2. Dreams affect
a person's decisions through the apparent changes in his own point of view and
the repetitive recollection of one’s dream
3. Some people
formulate dream-based rationalizations because studies have shown that dreams
provide solutions to one's problems and that they relay ideas to the dreamer
about the issues that haunt him.
4. Some
individuals exhibit submissions of their mindset to dream-based directions as
their dreams emphasize the importance of the past experiences of a person with
regard to the current learning that a person acquires, a proof that dreams
affect the learning aspect of a person.
5. Some people apply or manifest in their
decisions what their dreams have exposed to them. A number of studies have
explained that dreams instinctively refer to the other memories of the dreamer
that associate the currently occurring circumstance, and trace back the actions
that the dreamer had already done in order for him to apply it to the latest
problem.
CONCLUSIONS
Based on the findings of this study,
the following conclusions are drawn:
1. Dreams truly
offer solutions to one’s currently occurring problems, but what prevents a person to harness and to get the
best use of their dreams is their incapability to interpret their own dreams
despite the notion of psychoogists that the person who can best interpret one’s
dream is the reamer himself.
2. Dreams really
do provide solutions to problems, but what hinders a person to rely on these dream-founded
solutions is their skepticism to the effectiveness such, this is mainly because
the messages presented in one's dream include some distortions and symbolism.
3. People's
decisions are being affected by their dreams although a limitation of this
influence occur due to people's lack of capability to recall the entirety of
their dreams.
RECOMMENDATIONS
After drawing the conclusions of the
study, the researchers hereby make the following suggestions/recommendations:
1. In order to
know what dreams are purposely made for, it is better to open one's minds to
the possibility that dreams may provide solutions to problems since these
images that we see while we are sleeping originate from our own minds, rather
than to pose an immediate skepticism to these dreams without even giving it a
slight attention.
2. In order to
test and to witness how dreams can possibly be harnessed to contribute in solving
a person's problems, one may initially try to apply a dream-based idea to a his
currently occurring small problem so that regardless of its effectiveness, one
has an applied dream testimony for
himself.
3. The suggestion
of Professor Deidre Barrett of Harvard Medical School which is to condition
one's mind to dream of the solution about a particular before going to sleep
can also be tried and practiced
regularly in order to attest and hone the usefulness of one's dreams.
4. Future
researchers may study further the factors that prevent people from enacting the
dream-given solutions and strategies. They may also provide some
reccommendations on how people may
possibly practice the recollection of one's dreams in order for these dreams to
serve their purpose of relaying some information that the dreamer is unaware of.
References:
Electronic
Media
“Dreams Can Solve
Problems”, Miranda Hitti, Retrieved
September 29, 2012, from www.webmd.com
“Dreams Make You Smarter, More Creative,
Studies Suggest”, Rachel Kaufman,
Retrieved September 30, 2012, news.nationalgeographic.com
“Famous Dreams
- Dream Discovery and Dream Creativity”, Retrieved October 20, 2012, from www.brilliantdreams.com
“Jung's
Rediscovery of the Dream”, Retrieved October 10, 2012, from dreamanalysis.info
“Oneirology:
Understanding the How, the Why and the What”, Retrieved September 20,
2012, from http://dreamdoze.com,
“Oneiromancy:
Prophetic Dream Interpretation”, Retrieved September 25, 2012, from
http://www.here-be-dreams.com
“What is
Psychoanalysis”, Retrieved September 25, 2012, from http://www.freudfile.org
“Why Do We Dream?”, Retrieved October 10, 2012, from www.bbc.com
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