My twenty time project was with a partner and we did ours on how dreams effect reality and how reality will effect your dreams. Our goal was to see how our stress levels(reality) would effect our dreams, and how those dreams would effect our day. We were focused on trying to inform others of how dreams sometimes aren't just dreams.
We had two different experiments. Our first experiment tested different levels of stress and what dreams we had that night. Jayne, my partner, had a consistency in her stress and recorded her dreams over a two week period. I adjusted my levels of stress by doing homework earlier, having less tests and quizzes and then recorded my dreams for each level of stress over a two week period.
The second experiment focused on how dreams effected your mood during the day. We would record the dreams we had the night before and record main emotions we felt throughout the day.
For the first experiment, we found that stress levels did have a sort of impact on our dreams. Whenever I had many tests that really effected my grade, my dreams had a feeling of anxiety and restlessness, while on spring break, I was relaxed and mainly dreamless. Jayne's dreams didn't really change throughout her two weeks which was to be expected. Sometimes we didn't remember our dreams or forgot to record them, but we ended up getting the data we needed.
For the second experiment, I didn't find a lot of correlation between dreams and reality, but more of a correlation between reality and dreams. It seemed like the day's main emotions factored into the following night's dream. We had the same problem as the first experiment in which we forgot to record to just forgot our dreams.
We learned about relying on each other and not trying to do everything ourselves. If we could do this project again, I would have both of us keep a journal beside our beds so when we woke up, we could write down our dreams immediately. I learned that I have very vivid dreams that don't always make sense, but do reflect the inner turmoils that I have. I would say that I've learned that I'm a forgetful person, but I think I already knew that.
Jayne and I are making an infographic to share what we have learned. We might do another experiment about how reality effects dreams to make sure a conclusion we drew from our second experiment was correct.
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