HW7: SURVEY REPORT

SURVEY REPORT

            In order to gather information for the research on the effects of food on dreams, the researcher conducted surveys and had a few interviews. The researcher chose to conduct the survey on a group that can have similar set of activities and schedule in order to achieve a sort of controlled set up. All the respondents are AC students, and almost 95% of the respondents came from the same block. The researcher also had a few interviews to ask more specific questions concerning the questions asked in the survey. The interviews tackled follow-up questions concerning the time difference of when they eat and sleep and other night routines.

            The first question in the survey asked about how many times the respondent dreams in a week. This question intended to answer how much the respondent can remember the dream that they had. 10 out of 25 respondents claim that they dream more than twice in a week, another 10 out of the 25 respondents said that they dream twice a week, and the remaining 5 claim to dream every night. This data can be considered as a good sign for the researcher because most of the respondents are able to remember the dreams that they had, thus having more reliable data. With regards to the type of dreams the respondents usually had, 48% of the respondents claim to usually have nightmares, while respondents with happy dreams are only 20%, 32% claim to have re-occurring dreams or those dreams that happen over and over again. 32% of these dreams are said to be vivid in a way that the respondents did not even realized that they were dreaming until they woke up. With regards to the relationship of food on their dreams, survey results show that most of the respondents who had nightmares either ate something salty (33%),ate something light like chips and sandwiches (33%), or didn’t eat at all (17%). Almost all the respondents who often had happy dreams usually eat something sweet. Vivid dreams are also incorporated with salty food while Re-occurring dreams mostly happen to those who eat light meals.

            As a researcher, I somehow expected the results. I had expected most of the respondents to answer either salty or light meals as to what they eat before they sleep because these types of food are the usual meals these days; salty dishes because of our culture and light meals specially for busy students like college students. But I didn’t quite expect for remarkable similarities in the results. Honestly, I thought that the details will be all over, but most of the answers of the respondents are the same. My expectation about having nightmares when you don’t eat before sleeping or possible being a bit hungry was also well established in the results.

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