HW10: Interview & Survey Report

            As I’m working on my paper which is centered in dreams affecting decisions, I came up with questions which I supposed would help me extract the views and experiences of people regarding the topic of my research. Luckily, these questions really fulfilled their tasks, although the responses quite contradict what the research is currently going through. I conducted an interview and a survey using the same questions but with different approaches. I conducted a survey online. I sent copies to my high school and college friends, and also, to my previous teachers and professors. Many of them responded to my request and answered the survey with enthusiasm. I also interviewed my cousin, my sister’s mother-in-law who is really fond of interpreting dreams, and my college friend. The difference is that, while I’m conducting the interview, every question that I ask has an immediate explanation especially when I can see that they are somehow confused with the question that I posed unto them. I also make sure that I lead them to the right direction because I noticed that whenever I allow them to talk continuously, they navigate from the question that I asked, so I just either repeat my question to them or ask for some clarifications.

            In my survey, I come up with numerous conclusions regarding the percentage of people who have taken notes of their dreams and the frequency of those, the percentage of the respondents who rationalize and interpret their own dreams, the part/parts of their lives being affected/have been affected by their dreams, and the number of people who formulate dream-based decisions. Here are the summaries of the survey:

 

Formulation of dream-based decisions:

 

Parts of life affected by dreams:

The results of the survey are almost the same with the results of my interviews. Most of them are contradictory with what I have done in my research. I have included in my paper an article which states that dreams offer solutions to people. Although there are a few who reported that their dreams have some insights and warnings to their current problems, still, most of the respondents are in the negative. Also, only 25% of all the respondents have said that they formulated some dream-based decisions in the past. Luckily, in the end, many of the respondents have said that decisions are one the parts of their lives which have been affected by their dreams although they don’t actually manifest these kinds of decisions since for them, they don’t seem logical at times or they feel doubtful about these decisions at some point.

            In my prediction, I told that the responses will be significant enough to confirm the research which I have done so far. I also said that I’m still open to the possibility that some respondents may not be able to give concrete answers because of the intricacies of this study and also because of the limitation of every human being to recall his own dreams. I found out that my predictions are somehow correct when it comes to the responses of the ones who took the survey and those whom I have interviewed. Still, the responses are not enough to confirm the results of my study. This is because some people don’t take time to ponder on their dreams unless they were being bothered by such. The survey and the interviews have helped me somehow in coming up with conclusions for my research and in diagnosing some limitations of my study like not all people are interested in dreams and not all of us take time to meditate our own dreams that is why we find them very difficult to remember.