What is the database "DreamBank" that can search dream diaries of over 20,000 cases?

ByRobert Couse-Baker

Some of the dreams that you see while sleeping is absurd and story-free with stories going on and there are times when it is difficult to share events in your dream with others. A database of dreams that can be retrieved from the Internet by gathering such dreams as texts is "DreamBank"is.

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He is a research professor majoring in psychology and sociology at the University of California at Santa CruzGeorge William DanhoffHe is a person who specializes in researching "dreams" and who launched the data bank "DreamBank" to transcribe and collect the details of dreams.

DreamBank
http://www.dreambank.net/


Mr. Danhoff who studies dreams is often asked "interpretation of the dream I saw" from the surroundings, but as each cause of a person's dreams is to be interpreted individually as a dream It is difficult to say. So Mr. Danhoff launched the data bank "DreamBank" to analyze the "big data of the dream" by keeping a record of a lot of dreams.

What became under DreamBank is research materials gathered examples of dreams that Mr. Calvin Hall, a psychologist who studied by Mr. Danhoff classified in its own code system. Mr. Hall passed away in 1985 and the state of inability to access the dream research materials collected by Mr. Hall was continued, but since Mr. Danhoff converted data of all the data into searchable in 1999, That's why DreamBank was born.

Mr. Danhoff (left) and Hall (right) are reflected in the following photos.


DreamBank collects research materials and documents that describe the details of the dreams seen by people between the ages of 7 and 74, and the real names of experienced dreamers are obsessed with pseudonyms in consideration of privacy. For example, it includes data that recorded 143 dreams where a man named "Ed" passed away for 22 years and data of over 900 dreams of "Dorothy" who wrote a dream diary for 53 years from 1977 It is being done.

Since the accuracy of a dream is understood only by a person himself, collection of data of a dream tends to be a difficult task by itself. For example, from the content of dreams heard from shy personality subjects, sexual depictions may be cut, which may depend on the personality and characteristics of the subject. With this in mind, DreamBank gathers data on dreams recorded for "for myself" as in the case of continuing to record the dream of a deceased wife.

As of 2015, DreamBank has become a library that keeps details of dreams of over 20,000 people, and the stored dream is to search for specific dreams by keywords or to pick up some dreams randomly It is supposed to be able to do.

For example, searching for "cat" and coming out is a dream diary written by 12-year-old "West Coast Girl" as follows.

I saw the outdoor shining. It was a UFO. ET came over here and pointing to me with the middle finger and talking to "Ouchidenwa". My sister came with a cat and screamed. Then ET took my sister and I was very happy. Then ET also took the cat, so I furiously threw an enormous rock into the ET and the ET disappeared. In the morning my sister and cat had gone home, so I headed to the supermarket. ThereBilly Joe Armstrong(A vocal of the rock band "Green Day") so I asked for a sign but I ran away while leaving my parents on the spot.

Also, the dream of "Japanese exchange student" who came out with DreamBank's random search was as follows.

I am having a weekend with two Japanese exchange students. We are talking about what we can do in the house. I took out some cold sandwiches packaged by one person. In the package there are strange eating Chinese people who swallow the sandwiches. Water is coming in the room when you notice it, it looks like a lake. When everyone was aboard a boat, one Japanese showed a black metal terminal with a button. I learned that underwater can be seen at that terminal, looking through the bottom of the room, the bottom of the water was covered with the metal terminal I had in my hand. And I cried out surprised because "my father" was in the bottom of the water. So we agreed to spend more time with us and went to my apartment Millie.

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Mr. Danhoff replies "Jesus is also a no" to the question "Is interpretation of dreams possible?" By collecting data of such enormous dreams. "For example," I did not get a sign for Joe is that you think Joe thinks "I have a heartbreak, I am angry, I love you very much." In that case, Joe will continue to appear in a dream In the dream, there are many "noises" in dreams, so for example, to analyze the meaning of a dream that an individual saw, for example, it is not only one but also a lot of other dreams are required It is said that.

Mr. Danhoff analyzed the data of "Ed" who keep dreaming of his wife who died for 22 yearsAnnouncementWe are challenging to analyze more detailed dreams such as doing. Although dreams are expected to have the possibility of "predicting future illnesses", in the present situation, Mr. Danhoff is the manifestation of thoughts and concerns that hold dreams in their daily lives, and it is extremely realistic I think that phenomenon.