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Students share what goes on in their head at night
By: Joao Antunes
When the television debuted in the mid-1900s, every program was broadcasted in black-and-white. But with it came something odd; Americans back then shared the belief their dreams had the same no-color quality as their televisions did. Decades have passed since; do we dream differently?
Obviously, yes; many students at Dexter High shared their thoughts on how they dream and the contrast between color-and-no-colored dreams is quite grand and blatant.
An overwhelming ninety-five percent of students––around two-hundred and ninety individuals––from a Squall survey said they dream with color, versus the 5% who don’t. Cool, but what do they dream?
The notion that video games and violent movies cause people to be violent is one parents unanimously share; the American Psychological Association says: “the factor involvement while using the media type in waking life had a significant impact on the percentage of media dreams.” How wrong are they?
Although we don’t have what sort of media our students consume, when we asked what you people recurrently dreamt, the survey received a plethora of violent and troubling dreams. Some were about being “kidnapped” while others were about“people robbing my house”; one student said, “usually when I have re-occuring [dreams], they are scary/violent.” One truly nightmarish one was about Valorant.
The claim presented by the American Psychological Association is further proved by one individual, who said: “Yes, I play a lot of videogames and watch a lot of WW2 movies, so I dream that I’m in that time period fighting.”
Another student said: “Dreams are an outlook of my imagination. I can make anything happen within them, and I think that’s the true beauty of dreams.”
Annalena Eisel said she “lowkey dream[s] about being rich.”
Dreams aren’t just little episodes that we watch to pass the time as we sleep; they are a memento as to who you are at the very back of your mind.
