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A KBP student's Research Proposal  (not all citations are complete, here)

Topic: Dreams

Question: What is the function of the dream? < The one clear question that you will attempt to answer by the final week.

Tentative Outline:  <  This is NOT a plan for any future paper; it is merely proof of getting your feet wet.

I. What is a dream?  <  For the final paper, all text is to be double-spaced.)
A.  How researchers determine what a dream is
1. related to sleep  (Dement)
2. related to imagination   (     -----    ) <  indicate your source in these for every item
3. related to other realities
              a. Joseph in the Old Testament (Exodus ---:  -   )
              b.  E. Cayce's 6 kinds
B. Conclusions of researchers
1. time of day/circadian rhythms (Dement)
2. neurological activity
3. hormonal activity (Day Dream website )
II.  Kinds of dreams      (Van de Castle)
1. average, everyday dreams
      a. result from physical stimuli
      b. result from emotional "
2. wish-fulfilling fantasies
      a. erotic  (Freud)
      b. revenge (---? --) < indicate your source in these
3. premonitory (      )
     a. pleasant
     b. unpleasant
4. nightmares
     a. are night terrors, dreams?  (         )
5. lucid dreaming -- is it truly dreaming?
 
III. Functions:  Why we need to dream
            1.  psychology  (Enc. Soc. Sciences, also Dement)
                                   a. memory integration
                                   b. homeostatic functions
                                             i.  hormonal levels
                                            ii.  blood pressure
                    2.  physiology  (Penfield)
                                a.
                                b.
         IV.  Current Research
                              1.  periodical search (medical journals)

                              2. breaking news       (an Internet url)

        V.  Popular concerns
                  1. Can we control our dreams?      ( Day Dream online )

                   2. Can we rely on the 'dream books"  ( Holt P.I. )

                   3. Is the psycho-analytic view still accepted?    (van de Castle)
 
 

Works Cited



Dement, William Charles. Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep. Saratoga Springs, Cal.: Namely Co., 1999.

Day Dreams.  Online at http://www.daydreams.org/daydreams.htm  Accessed Feb. 6, 1999. Available.

"Dreams," Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.  1999 ed.

Freud, Sigmund. On the Interpretation of Dreams. Online. http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm
                          Accessed  Sept. 30, 2001. Available.<  But we never double-space items in a Works Cited list.)

Jung, Carl G. (ed.) On the Interpretation of Dreams, The Collected Writings of Sigmund Freud. NY: Some Fun
                            Company, 1995.

Penfield, Wilder. "Dreams," Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  1989 ed.

Revonsuo, Antti. The Reinterpretation of Dreams:  An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming,
                         Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (6): XXX-XXX., 2000.
                         <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.revonsuo.html> Accessed Feb. 22, 2001.

Sacks, Oliver.  The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. City:  Company, 1995.

Van de Castle, Fritz. Our Dreaming Mind. City:  Company, 1995.
 

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