Friday, March 27, 2009

When Did Your Dreams Come True?

By John Tierney / Source: NY Times

After analyzing the dreams reported by Lab readers, two psychologists have drawn a fascinating graph of which of your dreams came true — and there’s nothing mystical about their explanation of this pattern.


The psychologists, Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and Michael Norton of Harvard, collected responses from Lab readers who filled out a survey mentioned in a previous post that appeared along with a Findings column on the psychologists’ dream research.

These self-selected volunteers aren’t a random or representative sample of either Lab readers or the general population, but the researchers find their answers revealing in other ways. Here’s the summary of the research from Dr. Morewedge and Dr. Norton:


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