Team Number: 094
School Name: Silver High School
Area of Science: Psychology
Project Title: The Hidden World of Dreams
Problem Solution:
The process of gathering information will be done through the use of
carefully designed surveys that will be distributed though classes at
Silver High School. A given number between one and fifteen will classify
the teenagers who take the survey according to their identified area of
insufficiency. There will be three main categories in which each
individual will be placed in according to their area of instability which
consist of Social Life, Spiritual Life, and Family Life. The survey will
also consist of questions dealing with specific symbols within dreams to
see if there is a correlation between certain symbols present in dreams
and areas of discontent. If a correlation does exist, the specific
symbols will be provided in a program questionnaire to aid in other
people's dream life.
Progress to Date:
The group has gathered resources about dreaming and found information on
the three areas they intend to research: Social Life, Spiritual Life, and
Family Life. This information has been implemented into a survey that
has been designed to measure which factor each individual is lacking in,
if any. The overall plan has been scoped out to effectively gain data and
use it as support or refutation to the hypothesis that events in peoples'
lives coincide with symbols in their dreams. The computational program is
also being formatted to give the results and facilitate others who wish to
gain some information about their dream life as well as their realistic
life. Mr. Steve Blake, a science teacher at Silver High, is offering help
on the scientific aspect of the project and will be the mentor to the
group.
Expected Results:
The group plans to receive 400 surveys evenly male and female. Results of
the data will be compared. If a correlation between symbols in dreams and
any of the three factors of research are found, a program will be
constructed to allow users access to the results of the experiment and
gain knowledge to some of their own personal dream symbolism.
Inaccuracy is expected from different phases of the project. The data will not be entirely factual because there is no way to determine if all the data is the truth. Another inconsistency is that the data is based solely on remembrance, which can be distorted or forgotten. This trait is unavoidable as with all research on dreams.
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