Being Chased Summary

The article titled “Typical Dreams of ‘Being Chased’: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Tibetan and Han Chinese Dreamers” is an article with a specific purpose. This purpose is to compare and contrast a typical dream amongst two different cultures. It focuses highly on the two cultures influencing the “Being Chased” dream, but fails to notice the possible bias in gender inequality for each specific group. While the total female to male ratio is 307 to 262, a fairly equal count, the specific Han and Tibetan totals end up in high disparity. The Han Chinese sample has a correlation of 196 males to 95 females, and the Tibetan sample has greater disparity with 212 females to 66 males. With an imbalance so tremendous, one can only assume certain results to be obscured from a cultural standpoint. That said, if the same results were to arise from a more equal gender …show more content…
Typical dreams are dreams which the majority of people experience at least once in their life time (Yin, 2013, p.65). These dreams are similar in content and must be frequent in their occurrence. In this study, 93.3% of the students surveyed said they had experienced a “Being Chased” dream. This confirms it as a typical dream and allows support for the researchers to conduct their study. The researchers then create points for comparing and contrasting, and are as follows: chasing agents, feelings while being chased, first reactions, final outcomes, and the approach once awake. These cover the basis for this type of dream and provide solid elements for comparing the Tibetan and Han students. One factor they forgot to question is whether the student was able to give a reason they felt a certain aspect of the dream was the way it was. For example, the student might be extremely scared of bears, and because of this they dreamt of running from a bear. This tears down the cultural use of the bear and now becomes a personal