One of the numerous basic survival needs for humans is sleep. An average person sleeps for eight hours in a day and approximately lives for 71 years. With that information it is not hard to say that the average human sleeps 207,320 hours (71 years multiplied by 365 days in a year, that answer multiplied by 8 hours) in a lifetime, an estimated one-third of our lives. Each night, when our heads it the soft pillow and finally lull into a sleeping state, we as individuals will have four to seven dreams during the nighttime. It will take one and a half hours, roughly 20% of our time peacefully sleeping, to dream. The empirical research on massive collections of dream reports has shown that our time dreaming reflects the relationships, activities,
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Yet, we should assume that during political, and economic turmoil, people will have disturbed dreams and nightmares much like the current period we are in now with a recent controversial presidential election. Which, will affect numerous items including health and political attitudes on such topics. As described in Predisposed the general theme in personalities within political parties is that liberals are more creative and artistic whereas conservatives are more known to be practical and safety-oriented. Given this information, we should assume that liberals are more likely to remember dreams and conservatives not. We should also presume that conservatives, safety-oriented, are more likely to have unpleasant dreams rather than pleasant dreams. We make this assumption on the thought that conservatives are more cautious and less open to experiences than …show more content…
He provided the results of the given survey comparing the sleep and dream experience of 234 self-reported liberals (n= 134) and conservatives (n= 100). The survey had been given to the individuals between 2001 and 2004 during George W. Bush’s (republican/conservative) presidency (Bulkeley 2006). He compared these results with those collected from a previous survey gathered between 1996 and 2000, during Bill Clinton’s (democrat/liberal) presidency. Bulkeley recognized the limitations of small samples, and hesitantly made conclusions. Among these conclusions were that conservatives, men especially, slept more soundly and dreamed in more ordinary imagery. Liberals, women especially, had more distraught sleep as well as detailed dreams with magnificent elements. Bulkeley did speculate that this could be due to the more open personality of liberals. Even more intriguing was his comparison between the two surveys. They were held in different political climates, revealing that each group had increased night terrors when the other political party held the presidency. One example Bulkeley gave was a statement of an individual describing his dreams: “I was onstage singing “If I Had a Hammer” to President Bush, who the the sole audience member, who didn’t
Yet, we should assume that during political, and economic turmoil, people will have disturbed dreams and nightmares much like the current period we are in now with a recent controversial presidential election. Which, will affect numerous items including health and political attitudes on such topics. As described in Predisposed the general theme in personalities within political parties is that liberals are more creative and artistic whereas conservatives are more known to be practical and safety-oriented. Given this information, we should assume that liberals are more likely to remember dreams and conservatives not. We should also presume that conservatives, safety-oriented, are more likely to have unpleasant dreams rather than pleasant dreams. We make this assumption on the thought that conservatives are more cautious and less open to experiences than …show more content…
He provided the results of the given survey comparing the sleep and dream experience of 234 self-reported liberals (n= 134) and conservatives (n= 100). The survey had been given to the individuals between 2001 and 2004 during George W. Bush’s (republican/conservative) presidency (Bulkeley 2006). He compared these results with those collected from a previous survey gathered between 1996 and 2000, during Bill Clinton’s (democrat/liberal) presidency. Bulkeley recognized the limitations of small samples, and hesitantly made conclusions. Among these conclusions were that conservatives, men especially, slept more soundly and dreamed in more ordinary imagery. Liberals, women especially, had more distraught sleep as well as detailed dreams with magnificent elements. Bulkeley did speculate that this could be due to the more open personality of liberals. Even more intriguing was his comparison between the two surveys. They were held in different political climates, revealing that each group had increased night terrors when the other political party held the presidency. One example Bulkeley gave was a statement of an individual describing his dreams: “I was onstage singing “If I Had a Hammer” to President Bush, who the the sole audience member, who didn’t