Caitlin Ide

Sleeping and Dreaming Journal Assignment

BASELINE DATA CHART
Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

5/17/16

5/18/16

5/19/16

5/20/16

Total Hours
of Sleep
(e.g. 7.75)

8.3 Hours

7.9 Hours

8.4 Hours

7.5

8.025
Hours

Number of
dreams that
you can
recall at
least
partially

3.

3.5

Number
related to
experiences
of the day

2.5

REMEMBER DATA CHART

Total Hours
of Sleep

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

5/21/16

5/22/16

5/23/16

10 Hours

8 Hours

7.9 Hours

Mean

8.6 Hours

Mean

(e.g. 7.75)

Number of
dreams that
you can
recall at
least
partially

5 Dreams

4 Dreams

3 Dreams

4 Dreams

Number
related to
experiences
of the day

3 Relation

1 Relation

1 Relation

1.6
Relations

Dream 1:
A)I was a goat and I was with a horse and we jumped out of a car that was bringing us to the city. Me
and this horse wanted to get to copperton to go to a pasture so that we would be in the wild again,
as we were going down the street we saw dead foxes on the sidewalk. My dream then switched to
me trying to find a sandwich at the dollar store or else I didnt remember the full dream.
B1) Considering the fact that I was a goat in this dream, no I cant tie it to my physical self, but if I tie
it to symbolical terms, yes. I believe this dream was connected to how I believe urbanization is taking
away from wildlife and nature. I believe my subconscious may have been giving me the message
that, with me being a goat and running away to find a pasture, that I need to go out to nature and
experience the relaxation that it holds due to my large amount of stress.
B2) The only connection I see to my everyday life is the possibility of it representing that I need to go
into nature to relieve stress. This could have stemmed from being stressed from all my knew college
classes, considering I had this dream on the beginning days of summer college classes.
B3) The only interaction I had in this dream was with a horse, the horse did not talk and we did not
engage in an animal conversation, I just followed the role of the horse by jumping out of the car.
Dream 2:
A) This dream I have had on a multitude of occasions, its a dream where in the dream I
push so hard on my teeth that my teeth either fall out or within my dream I attempt to tell my

dream self to stop pushing on my teeth. Throughout the week I had this dream two times.
During one of the dreams I pushed so hard on my tooth that it fell out and I had to go to the
dentist to get it fixed, but my fear came true and they could not fix it. In the more recent
dream, I only pushed on my tooth to the extent that I could stop myself in the dream from
losing my tooth again.
B1) Ive read in a book before that these types of dreams are related to stress. If you dream about
losing your teeth, it shows a sign of tension that you create in your jaw by clenching and it pushes on
your teeth. Emotionally I find stress at every corner because I have a panic disorder and its been
getting harder to deal with recently, so I feel like that ties in with the increased amount of dreams
with pushing on my teeth in the dreams. That, or, I am physically pushing on my teeth at night and
grinding them, so in that case I should probably ask my dentist.
B2) This dream did not show any previous days events, unless of course you relate it to stress.
Otherwise, this was not stemmed from me losing teeth.
B3) In the first dream where I lost my tooth I was at a college castle where I did not know most
people, and then when I went to the dentist it was my dentist I have had my entire life. He interacted
in the typical way, besides for the fact that he could not fix my tooth. In the second dream I was
around my father and he was frustrating me.
Dream 3:
A) The easiest way to explain this dream is: A blood test came back showing that I had
no blood. In the dream my dad called me telling me the results of a blood test, and it said
that I wasnt creating new blood cells anymore, and that my mitosis wasnt working
anymore(too much biology for me). I started breaking down crying and I contacted my
friends and family about it and no one cared. I then went into the mountains and drove and
that was the end of that dream.
B1) I believe it emotionally represents my hidden fear of developing a physical illness that I can not
control. It shows that I do not want to know if I have an illness, but it also shows that I would like to
know in order to take precautions.
B2) Its rehashing previous events in the past few weeks. During finals week I had symptoms of a
stroke on my left side where I lost my vision and my arm and face started to go numb. Since then I
have been scared that I have something wrong with me. I told my dad I wanted to do a blood test to
see if the loss of vision(a blind spot in my left eye) was linked to diabetes, which I would be also
tested for. We didnt do the test so I think this is my subconscious being paranoid and worried about
not having answers to my health.
B3) The characters in this dream I all knew. My dad, mother, boyfriend, and friends were all in the
dream. They were distant towards me and did not care about the news.
Dream Interpretation: Dream 1
1) Yes, I agree with what the dream interpretation stated. It said that the horse
represents the wild energies of the psyche, it said that it represents taming of your life, and I
believe that is true with the factor of stress. The horse in my dream is what I followed, which
symbolizes the strong aspect of being tamed and powerful, which is what the goat wasn't. I

also looked up goat, which symbolizes intelligence, so maybe this dream was showing that
my intelligence does matter but not as important as the strength I need to push through life,
which is what following the advice from the horse symbolized.
2) Scientifically, you can not accurately give the same interpretation to a large amount
of various individuals and have it work. There are a lot of other factors that need to be
considered, such as different beliefs, ideas, understandings of the world, etc. With every
individual, the interpretation will obviously be the same, and the reason why some
interpretations work so well is because some individuals apply it as a stretch of the
interpretation or others follow it word by word. Shortly, the accuracy of the interpretation
comes from the perspective and understanding of the individual.
3) I believe that dreams can motivate you and give you different ideas on how to go
about life, which would indifferently change your future and give you knowledge of how you
will work things out; otherwise, no, I do not believe that dreams can be that rooted in your
future and knowledge. Due to how I beleive your subconscious sometimes interferes in your
dreams, I believe that the dreams will portray various methods of how you could go about
different situations if you are in a stressful situation and need help. Psychologically your mind
will be there to find a way to solve the problem. All in all though, I believe that dreams may
shape your future and your knowledge due to how they may give you a different perspective
and a second thought, but I do not believe that they can provide unrelated information to the
future.