HW7: Shades-of-gray People: The Link between Dreams and Decisions

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Decisions originate from numerous options. People are forced to choose between blacks and whites, although others sometimes choose to settle at the middle—at the gray region. Although some view this way of choosing among alternatives as a coward approach of formulating decisions, some psychologists view this as a sign of maturity. For them, ambivalent individuals, those who are on the verge of uncertainty among numerous choices, see all sides of an argument and scrutinize them carefully, making lists of pros and cons, before coming to a decision. According to the article “Why So Many People Can't Make Decisions” by Shirley S. Wang, in contrast with the black-and-white thinkers who have strongly positive or strongly negative views and get mired in one point of view which prompt conflict with others, ambivalent people are capable of harmonizing things. According to Dr. Jeff Larsen, a psychology professor who studies ambivalence at Texas Tech University, ambivalent people may be better able to empathize with others' points of view and tend to have healthier coping strategies while other people are only able to see one side of the story.

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Through ambivalence, the openness of individuals to newly held ideas can be a contributing factor in one’s formulation of dream-based decisions. Since skepticisms have no room for ambivalent persons, these kinds of individuals may be able to make the most efficient use of their dreams because the drive to test and to have dream-driven testimonies is present in these people. They make room for the possibility that those dream-related studies have a rational sense in human life.

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Ambivalent individuals are often associated with poor decision makers since it takes too long for them to decide on a particular situation or to choose among alternatives, they have the tendency to navigate from one decision to another, and they consider too many possibilities when coming up with a decision. Since these kinds of people are the ones who take dreams significantly, many people generalize that those who base their decisions from dreams are poor decision makers. The people who base their decisions from their own dreams are the ones who consider a number of possibilities, one of which is the significance of dreams. But, ambivalence—particularly, dream reliance—doesn’t always produce weak people. Sometimes, these dream-reliant people stand strong through the seasons of life. The reason for this is that they have this belief—a dream-based belief—that they know will help them cope with the struggles at the moment. Many people have experienced dreaming of a thing, a person, or a situation which they fear most, but in their dream, they didn’t feel any hint of timidity. Experts say that dreams eases fears through the repetitive images of the things that people fear being flashed at the blankness of the night. These kinds of dreams give people the courage they need to face the things which scare them, and only the ambivalent people are the beneficiaries of this source of courage.