The differences in the dream content of the congenitally blind and the sighted adolescents

• Main Authors: Barinaga, Lionel Shadrach L., Dela Luna, Peter Joseph V., Ng, Jennifer T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Adolescents; Individual differences in adolescence; Visually handicapped; Blind; Dreams; Difference (Psychology)
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6167
• Institution: De La Salle University

We wanted to determine the differences in the dream content of the congenitally blind and the sighted adolescents. We were able to hypothesize that the presence of rapid eye movement (REM) among the congenitally blind and the quality of their REM as well as their experiences may affect the characteristic of their dream content in comparison with the sighted. To test our hypothesis, we asked 12 congenitally blind students from the Philippine National School for the Blind, and 12 sighted students from De La Salle Zobel between 13-18 years of age to be our subjects. The participants were asked to make a dream diary with a minimum of seven entries for two weeks. After reading the gathered data, categories were set: number, color, person, emotion, place, time, event, and activities. We utilized t-test to determine the quantitative difference in the dream content of the participants based on the categories that were set. Results showed that there is a significant difference in all the categories except for color and number. These also indicate that the results were consistent with the hypothesis.