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Globalization Of Dreams And Its Effects On Dreams

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Globalization of Dreams
The focus of this study is to continue previous research relating the significance of cultures and dreams. These studies have set out to show what how much of an effect culture has on dreams. To measure this, other researchers have recorded participants’ typical dreams. These studies have helped us to understand some of the differences in beliefs, values, and structure of other cultures as well as the differences and similarities. Through analyzing the differences and similarities of our various cultures we learn what humans share in values as a whole and how our society influences our thinking and actions. By interviewing two people from two different collectivistic cultures, there should be a great deal of similarities between the two. Any differences recorded found will be derived from individual perspectives rather than culture. The goal of the research is to show culture doesn’t heavily influence our dreams but rather individual perceptions of the world around them do. There isn’t a significant difference in typical dreams between cultures, rather researchers tend to agree that culture doesn’t have much of an effect on dreams and it has more to do with our individual perception of our day (Jaenicke 2009).
In Griffith, Miyago, and Tago’s (1958) study of The Universality of Typical Dreams: Japanese vs. Americans, statistics showed “out of the 34 typical dreams compared between the two, 14 held a significant difference of a .01 confidence

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