How Important Are Dreams in Your Life

How Important
High school graduate project:

November de 2019
Are Dreams In
Your Life.
Extended Essay
Research Question: How important
are dreams for the lives of students at
The I.E. Francisco José de Caldas
School?
Names:
Melanie Carbonó Castro
Sofía Colorado Morales
Catalina Gallego Aristizabal
Melisa Giraldo Ospina
Juanita Giraldo Ramírez
Natalia Ramírez Buriticá
Andrea Rojas Castaño
Laura Sepúlveda Velásquez
Teacher(s):
Alejandro Villegas
Estefanía Rodríguez
How Important Are Dreams In Your Life
ABSTRACT
The monograph addresses the effect and importance of dream interpretation. To do this, and to simplify
and reduce our range of research, we address the question to a certain number of students at the I.E
Francisco José de Caldas School to get an answer to our problematic question.
Women contribute in a higher percentage than men, in surveys conducted at the Francisco José
de Caldas School, correlating their dreams with everyday life and connecting many event
factors with what they have dreamed. Mainly, this happens because women easily show that
they are more sentimental and connect their heart and thoughts with details that give beauty or,
on the contrary, go beyond negative things, because these are spiritual things, women tend to
idealize all.
In response to this question, theoretical texts of books related to the subject were used within
the framework of other sources; thus, as primary sources, interviews and surveys of the interest
groups of the institution.
From the above, the data presented were collected to carry out an evaluation of the theoretical
framework, together with the data produced by the primary sources, the surveys, so that there
was a critical analysis in the answer to the problem question.
The women of the José de Caldas Franciscan Institute mainly relate their latest actions to the
projections of their dreams that resemble the reality of their life with the fantasy they have in
their moments of sleep, because they create an emotional relationship with their surroundings
and their actions every day.
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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract ................................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.
2 Aknowledgements ........................................................................................................... 3
3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Problem Statement ................................................................................................... 4
3.2 Justification of the approach .................................................................................... 4
3.3 Objectives ................................................................................................................ 5
3.4 Methodology ............................................................................................................ 6
4 Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework ................................................................................. 7
4.1 Influence of Dreams ................................................................................................. 7
4.2 Concepts ................................................................................................................. 10
4.2.1 Dreaming ........................................................................................................... 11
4.2.2 Onirology ......................................................................................................... 11
4.2.3 Imagination ........................................................................................................ 11
4.2.4 Psychoanalysis ................................................................................................. 11
4.2.5 Unconscious ....................................................................................................... 11
4.2.6 Vigil ................................................................................................................. 11
4.2.7 Fase REM .......................................................................................................... 12
4.2.8 Psyche .............................................................................................................. 12
4.3 Dream Interpretation............................................................................................... 16
4.4 Dream Intellect ....................................................................................................... 16
4.5 Demographic Framework ....................................................................................... 19
5 Chapter 2: About Instituto Técnico Francisco José de Caldas ...................................... 23
6 Chapter 3: Data Analisis ............................................................................................... 25
7 Evaluation & Conclusión ................................................................................................ 30
8 Bibliografía.................................................................................................................... 31
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2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We firmly thank God for the wisdom in the hours we spend doing the rehearsal.
We thank all those who trained and guided us in carrying out this research, our
supervisory teacher, Mrs. Estefanía Rodríguez and Mr. Alejandro Villegas, who had the
patience to help us collect data and our parents, who always motivated us.
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3 INTRODUCTION
3.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT

Along the history people have worried about the meaning that they have of dreams and how
they influence to make decisions. The Oneirology, which is the study of the dreams, has
contributed with big discoveries based on different theories and recent investigations.
Throughout history, people have worried about the meaning of dreams and how unfaithful it is
to make decisions. Oneirology, which is the study of dreams, has found great discoveries based
on recent theories and research.
Just because the brain understands what it sees, doesn't mean it has a critical sense; that is, it
does not mean that a logical explanation appears for these images to appear: "The part of the
brain that knows what reality is not active during sleep, and therefore we do not miss anything
we see and believe everything", adds Urrestadazu. That's the most beautiful thing about
dreams; they have a permit from the mind to surrender to Unrealism.
3.2 JUSTIFICATION OF THE APPROACH
The interpretation of dreams constitutes an important part in several aspects in general of the
everyday life of people. One of them is in the aspects of mental health: The interpretation of
dreams has helped successfully in thousands of people in their therapeutic treatments, because
commonly some dreams help the therapist to find the problem that affects the patient, finding
its origin, and from this origin will be found the best way to treat the patient.
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Dreams in general help us to know ourselves better, because some dreams are the
reflection of the things of our deep desires, failures, and restlessness, what we want to hide
from ourselves. And every day we lie to each other because when we want to repress
something that we don’t like, it is reflected in our dreams, which is an unconscious medium.
The dream presents itself as a call to each person to pay more attention to what he
wants, or what affects him, but he has ignored it. Getting to know each other is essential. By
knowing ourselves we will know to identify what we really want, what we don’t like, and it
will help us to make a more conscious decision about things.
3.3 OBJETIVES
General objective:
Identify the effect and importance that the interpretation of dreams has on the students of
the I.E Francisco José de Caldas school.
Specific objectives:
1. Compare the level of importance of the interpretation of dreams that exists in some
students of the I.E Francisco José de Caldas School.
2. Discuss the reasons why teachers and students make an interpretation of their dreams.
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3.4 METHODOLOGY
To collect information to recognize the importance of dreams, a survey will be applied
indirectly, which will generate answers that provide more accurate data on the topic, and thus
obtain better results from the survey.
The survey will be qualitative, with different options of response, which facilitate to the
respondents a better development of this, generating a better contextualization of the topic
understood.
Survey
Questions Never Sometimes Yes Always
Do you think your dreams are a reflection of your personality?
Do you usually relate dreams to your environment?
Do you often remember your dreams?
Do you consider your dreams to take decisions?
Do you think that in your dreams there are situations from your life?
When you have dreams, do you search their meaning?
Do you belive that your dreams have importance in your daily life?
Do you have repetitive dreams?
Do you comunicate your dreams with other people?
Do you belive that the last thing you do or think, is what your dream about?
Taking into account the students, both men and women from grades six to eleven of that
institution to which they will conduct a survey with twenty closed questions to validate the
issue in the investigation. This population is made up of students from the upper grades (from
sixth to eleventh grade), professors of philosophy and humanities, to whom qualitative surveys
were conducted, so it can be taken as priority information, which will help to understand the
importance of dreams in daily life. The age range of the population will be between eleven and
nineteen.
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4 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
4.1 INFLUENCE OF DREAMS
Dreams influence the daily life of every person, so, this article evidences like the world of the
dreams use to be more real every time, and the way in which it influences us. Likewise, the
dreams allow us to empathize with other people. 1
The interpretation people give to the dreams is usually very important. Most of the time they
relate them to their real lives. The study of the dream has come very far for the simple reason
because this process is full of mysteries, so the dreams can manage to look like the reality or
they can leave totally off the reality in which p2.eople to take place. 2
Through the Oneirology is a science that interprets the dreams and exist diverse ways of ana-
lyzing information compiled in our mind, it is very slightly probable to have precise informa-
tion of what really happens. Many studies can be made about dreams, why they happen or how
they happen, but the certain thing is that it continues to be a mystery to know the answers of all
the questions that this topic includes since it is very complex to analyze this field accurately.3
“Sampedro says (2013)

Los sueños han estimulado la imaginación humana como pocas cosas, tal vez porque
cualquier teoría sobre ellos es virtualmente irrefutable. Mensajes adivinatorios del
futuro para unos, reverberación interna del mundo según otros y narrativas enigmáticas
para el común, los sueños parecen exactamente la clase de experiencia subjetiva que
permanecerá siempre oculta”
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This is an example of what will be achieved in this project, the way in which dreams are
interpreted by people, have been interpreted (since it is said in the quotation) for their repetition
or also for the particularity of certain dreams. The reiteration of certain dreams may lead to the
conclusion of some situations that might have occurred
The interpretation of dreams is something completely subjective related to the previous quote,
therefore, the explanation of this or the reason for its origin is something that will always
generate doubts in our world. So many theories of the interpretation of dreams confuse us
greatly, to the point of being indifferent to them, because it is such an incomplete subject
opposed to society.
Dreams are vital for people, because it is like one way to prevent what may happen. Through
dreams people can know different characteristics about them or other people personalities, so
when people have full knowledge of these qualities there will be easier to act in a correct way
or to adapt themselves in different areas of life, in this case, when someone presents a problem
or inconvenience.4
What the teacher from the Complutense University of Madrid, Marina Bueno affirmed: is that
the books which aim to interpret the dreams generalize the whole population, when actually,
the interpretation of these dreams can change according to the culture, and not only it, but also
it changes depending on people thoughts.
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According to the wide percentage given by Héctor Gonzalez all dreams are narrowly connected
by emotions, thoughts or even by the situations that people face every day. So they allow
people to identify feelings that have possibly suppressed for months or years. 6
“Doria says (2018) Soñar es una función de gran importancia, ya que durante el acto de soñar
realizamos una investigación sobre nuestros deseos y necesidades, aspiraciones y temores que
están muy dentro de nosotros. Llegar a recordar lo que se ha soñado puede ayudar a
desenmascarar las emociones guardadas, los recuerdos enterrados y las vivencias no
comprendidas, por lo que soñar es altamente terapéutico”
This fragment is related to one of Freud's theories regarding the interpretation of dreams as it
links the dream, for example, the desires suppressed in our subconscious. It affirms that it is
therapeutic because dreaming allows us to express in some way what we cannot express when
we are conscious, it means that dreaming is a way out of the reality in which we are.
According to what these professionals affirm in the area of the onirology, the process of the
dream allows us to have a more wide vision of our suppressed desires and realizing this form
the derivations that this one has though dreaming is a habit and an unconscious process that we
do not decide to do or not, at the same time it give us the possibility to imagine situations that
can serve us to face adverse situations.
“Jungian analyst and author Robert A. Johnson argues that the experiences we have in a dream
state shouldn't be written off as "unreal." In fact, his work states that our dreams are a
reflection of our unconscious selves, and we can use our dreams to find clarity or peace in our
conscious interactions. It's the type of book to read if you've been having the same unsettling
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dream repeatedly since it will help decipher what the symbols mean and provide guidelines for
how they may relate to your life” Robert A, Jhonson, Inner Work.
4.2 CONCEPTS
4.2.1 Dreaming: Windt (2004) says:

Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an
important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although
there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution
to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be
due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the
nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself.
4.2.2 Onirology:
According to wikidictionary (2013)
Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations
between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as
understanding of how the brain works during dreaming as pertains to memory
formation and mental disorders.
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4.2.3 Imagination:
According to Mentesana (2010), 2The science is discovering that the imagination plays
a fundamental paper in the perception that we have of the reality and in the production
of the recollections, the dreams and the thoughts. “
4.2.4 Psychoanalysis:
“Psychoanalysis is both a theory of the human mind and a therapeutic practice. It was
founded by Sigmund Freud between 1885 and 1939 and continues to be developed by
psychoanalysts all over the world. “
4.2.5 Unconscious:
Freud (1895) states that “El inconsciente es el círculo más grande que incluye dentro de
sí el círculo más pequeño del consciente. Todo consciente tiene su paso preliminar en el
inconsciente. Mientras que el inconsciente puede detenerse con este paso y todavía
reclamar el pleno valor como actividad psíquica.”
4.2.6 Vigil:
According toVásquez (2004) “El estado de vigilia es un estado consciente que se
caracteriza por un alto nivel de actividad, en especial en relación al intercambio de
información entre el sujeto y su medio ambiente.” (p. 9)
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4.2.7 Fase REM:
La fase REM (siendo REM las siglas de Rapid Eye Movement) o MOR (Movimientos
Oculares Rápidos), es una de las fases del sueño más importantes. Se caracteriza por la
presencia de una elevada actividad cerebral, que puede resultar visible en la realización de
movimientos oculares rápidos y constantes. Es en la fase REM del sueño en el que aparecen los
sueños y las pesadillas, así como la capacidad para recordarlos. Psicología y Mente. (2008)
4.2.8 Psyche: “The psyche is a self-regulating organism in which conscious attitudes
are prone to be compensated by the unconscious (within sleep) for their opposites..” Jung
(2003)
4.2 DREAM INTERPRETATION
From antiquity to the present day, different cultures have regarded dreams as a gateway to a
magical dimension that allows predicting the future or communicating with spirits or other
intangible entities. Many of these beliefs remain part of some cultures.
In Freudian dream analysis, content is both the manifest and latent content in a dream, that is,
the dream itself as it is remembered, and the hidden meaning of the dream.
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The dreams have a biological function, where the content does not require analysis or
interpretation, but it provides an automatic stimulation of the physiological functions of the
body based on the unconscious behavior of the human. So the dreams are part of the human
and animal, the survival and the strategy of development.
The dream reality does not hide or distort certain contents that come from the unconscious, but
speaks with its own language, the language of the images; this leads to the need to want to find
the why of dreams, and you get to the method of interpret
The interpretation of dreams is something that has created great controversy over the years,
since you can extract different conclusions from these taking into account different aspects of
the daily life of people and the way people they think that dreams can influence their lives.
“Dreams serve to communicate everything that the conscious mind cannot accept. Unconscious
desires that do not want to recognize and that are why they appear in dreams represented
symbolically. That is, dreams are the way to express the repressed desires that the person has.
Dreams are a psychic tool to overcome the barrier between the unconscious, deep memory and
consciousness” Freud (1900)
This is one of the interpretations that can be given to dreams, which speaks of the repressed
desires; it says that human beings tend to possess illusions, goals that finally are not possible to
attain, and are reflected in dreams, perhaps not of a direct way, but yes trying to reflect that
event that has not yet been made, or well could not be done.
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Every dream can be interpreted; this means you can find a sense, independent of how the
dream is shown. It becomes a decomposition of the dream to obtain a concrete idea of the true
meaning of this, that is to say, interpreted the dream by parts, because the dream in general
would not give a really plausible explanation.
It can be evidenced then that dreams are only small parts of an exact prediction, they are pieces
of a puzzle, pieces that to which they should be made a thorough inquiry to find their true
meaning, since the dreams are show. In its own way (this mean abstractly), and throughout this
inquiry could present different confusions, since each dream presents different probabilities of
explanations.
Dreams can contain inevitable truths, illusions, memories, plans, experiences and irrational
visions. Like the psyche have a daytime side that is experienced as conscious life and one
nocturnal unconscious, side that is decrypted to the time to dream. Just as there is no doubt
about the importance of conscious experiences, should not predict the value of unconscious
lives.
Dreams point to concepts about oneself, family, friends and environment, generating in some
cases a type of barrier to others, by a simple intuition. They can also show certain conditions,
such as feeling weak, assertive, with lack of affection, dominant or unbearable, for the same
reason of wanting to give importance to that dream, to that unconscious part, and in the worst
case could create some evil Understood with others, for not having accurate information of the
meaning of the dream.
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Dreams are the best way to reveal people's thoughts and explain their behavior, it is the
entrance to a person's true self; it could be to say that dreams are a tool to clarify doubts of each
one, this means find an answer to some attitude out of the ordinary.
The dreams reveal the situations that most affect and that have affected the long of the life of a
person, be it traumas, achieved goals, losses, among others, which leave mark in the
unconscious, and can be evidenced in the dreams, achieving thus reflect that state in which a
person is, which affects and has affected of their environment.
This oneiric process could also be interpreted with the help of the cognitive process of people,
their perspective of what surrounds it, their culture, their beliefs, the influence that others have
on the life of the person. It could also give a meaning depending on the stage in which it is
located, since its thoughts, attitudes, perspective, beliefs; most of the times vary in each of the
stages of the human being.
Dreams are attempts to master important issues for the subject. They reflect the unconscious
attitude towards life, and how this attitude is presented as an option to handle certain problems.
In the dream is revealed metaphorical and symbolic WHAT THING? how to handle a problem
or personal matter; it reveals that the subject is busy with a major problem and his attitude
towards it.
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There is a continuity connection between the concerns of the waking state and the metaphors of
dreams. The task of the dream is to attend to the difficulties that we face and give us a solution.
The given solution is governed by lifestyle; and it goes in against the feeling of community.
When they woke up, memories of the contents of the dream could disappear, but always left
some feelings. These feelings that cause dreams are their most important purpose. The feelings
can endure throughout the day, and go hand with the lifestyle, facilitating their expression.
The feelings that the dream produces, is why you really have to worry about the dream,
because this would be the purpose of the dream, alert so that the subject can reach the root of
the problem and find a solution.
Self-deception is best fulfilled with emotions and affections that with thoughts or logical
reasoning. So Adler believes that another function of dreams is the production of emotions,
which with their force push towards a solution according to our lifestyle. When the lifestyle is
in conflict with reality, the person can to produce in dreams ideas and images that in turn
provoke emotions that by their abstract character, do not understand. In dreams, the goal of the
person is the same as in State of wakefulness, but a dream pushes her towards him with greater
emotional strength.
4.4 DREAM INTELLECT
All human beings have the characteristic of curiosity, which leads them to ask questions about
everyday life and leads them to investigate the origin of everything. Especially when
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something happens to them frequently, as in the case of dreams. Then they are interpreted
innate.
For some the fact of interpreting the dreams becomes essential, because they consider that
these are a prediction of what brings them the future; for others, dreams are simply a biological
function, which may allow them to have a better rest, or on the contrary prevent this; other
people do not pay much attention to these perhaps because they consider it irrational to give
importance to something utopian
Giving an inferential explanation to dreams is sometimes are not the most "viable", because
occasionally dreams are simply products of tedious days, accumulated stress, problems that
occur normally, an accumulation of emotions that are reflected in dreams; perhaps for this
some dreams are feeling so real and difficult to differentiate the dreams of reality.
Dreaming is something that even most people do not control, and this can be a product of
endless motives, since when that dream comes change the perspective of a person, and that is
when the dream influences the daily life, and goes to the interpretation of the dream; when it is
considered that it gives an answer or it can predict some important event, or either because the
dream has generated so much uncertainty that it becomes a necessity to know the reason of the
dream.
Human beings have taken charge of giving importance to the interpretation of the dreams, for
this reason we relate this as the way in which it influences the daily living of each one. But you
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have to keep in mind is something that comes from many years ago, and however it is
somewhat complex to study this dream world, due to the many factors that can alter the
normality of a person, be it anguish, uncertainty, stress, happiness, among others.
Many people believe that dreams can predict the future, or perhaps give clues to a better
development of any situation that probably this altering the normal state of the person; or there
are those who believe that dreams are products of the desires and fears that all usually possess.
It is convenient to emphasize that any position in front of the oneiric world is valid, since by
nature, human beings is to be curious, that they are interested to know about them primarily
and what happens around them since some way or another this influences them; so it could be
concluded that to seek a sense of the dream that generates intrigue, is natural.
Usually at the time of dreaming, this does not have a very vast relevance. The real importance
is given when a dream goes from being a common dream to a remarkable dream. For example,
when you dream something like that on a variety of occasions. Or when in different dreams
they have common objects or situations that compose them. When that happens, the interest in
seeking interpretation of the dream grows. And because of that people tend to fall into different
meanings that offer different sources
Intense dreams like, the death of a loved one, accidents occurred, shameful situations, etc.
They are dreams that are generally remembered more easily. Well, they become dreams with
greater relevance compared to other dreams in which the situations that compose it are routine
or monotonous moments. When you have dreams of this type, the common thing is that they
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are shared with the outside or close people, giving them assumptions of their meaning and
interpretation.
At the moment of dreaming, there are many experiences; parallel and fictitious lives, events
occur completely out of context, most of which are not remembered when awakening. When
you sleep, you dream; and while that happens, the mind produces films with images and
memories, not only visual because in the dream are present the sensations with all the senses.
As has already been said, dreams can reveal desires and anxieties that people usually possess.
This point of view can be of great relevance, as it would unleash a very important element for
each one; approaching life dream with curiosity, and investigating dreams with openness and
honesty can be one more way to understand the circumstances of life and would be a way of
know yourself.
4.5 Demographic Framework
Dreams have always been topics of interest to all cultures or populations by the mystical or
disturbing of their interpretations. From the ancient Greeks, Celts, druids, or indigenous
populations, among others, have historically been recorded even in some characters in the
history of man; It is the case of some religions like the Christian one where the dreams were
revealing to many events like the announcement to the Virgin Mary; The dreams of Moses,
among others; thus also (,,,)
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Genesis 41:1-57; 42:1-8; 50:20.
This is the story about a young man named Joseph. His father's name is Jacob, and
they lived in Canaan from where his grandfather was from.
Joseph was seventeen (old enough to drive a car these days), and he had eleven
brothers; and only had one brother younger than him. Can you imagine having eleven
brothers to play with, or fight with?
Children's version Bible story: Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors Because Joseph
was one of the youngest sons, his father spent more time with him, and he became very
special to him. So Jacob had a special robe made for Joseph. (They didn't have jackets
back then, so this was a very special jacket). It was very beautiful and had every color
you could imagine in it.
All of Joseph's older brothers saw this and they got very jealous. The word jealous
means that Joseph's brothers disliked him because they thought his father liked him
more, and because he got the special coat. They got so jealous they couldn't even say a
kind word to him.
One day Joseph had a dream, and he went to go tell his brothers. He said, "Guess
what? Last night I had a strange dream. We were tying up bunches of grain out in the
field when suddenly my bunch stood up, while all of yours gathered around and bowed
to me." The brothers looked at each other in disgust, but Joseph continued. "Then I
had another dream that the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me."
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"Who do you think you are?" The brothers said. "Do you think that you are better than
all of us? Do you think that we would ever bow down to you?" This made the brothers
dislike Joseph even more.
When he told his father about his dreams he said, "Those are strange dreams." But he
thought carefully about what Joseph had told him.
A few days later Joseph's father asked him to check on his brothers. They were in the
fields quite a distance away. So Joseph went to find them.
When the brothers saw Joseph in the distance, they made a plan to kill him. But when
Reuben, Joseph's oldest brother heard this he said, "Let's not kill him, just throw him in
a well out here in the field." He said this because he was secretly planning to come
back and rescue Joseph when the other brothers had left.
So when Joseph came to them, they took off his beautiful robe and they threw him in an
empty well. A little while later a group of people came by that were wanting to sell
some things in Egypt. One of the brothers spoke up, "Why don't we sell him to these
people, this way we never have to see him again, and we don't have to kill him."
The other brothers liked this idea, so they sold him to the people who were going to
Egypt.
Unfortunately Reuben had been working and hadn't seen what happened. When he
returned to the well he noticed that Joseph was gone. He had been sold to an important
man named Potiphar, an assistant to the Pharaoh of Egypt.
The rest of the brothers took Joseph's beautiful robe and dipped it in animal blood and
took it back to their father. When the father saw this he cried, "Some animal has killed
my son." And he cried for many days, so much that nobody could comfort him.
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Now Joseph had started out as a slave, but the Lord was with Joseph and He helped him
do everything right. So Potiphar made him his helper, and put him in charge of
everything that he owned.
The problem came when Potiphar's wife lied about Joseph to her husband, so Potiphar
had Joseph put into jail.
The Lord was still with Joseph in jail, and the warden put Joseph in charge of all the
prisoners. He never worried because the Lord was with Joseph and helped him do
everything right.
After Joseph had been in jail for some time a cupbearer and baker to Pharaoh had been
sent there. One night each of them had a dream. They told their dreams to Joseph and
he told the cupbearer that he would soon be let out of jail. "Please tell Pharaoh about
me, and ask him to get me out of here." Joseph said.
When the cupbearer was freed he forgot about what Joseph did. So Joseph stayed in
jail for two more years. Until one day the Pharaoh had a dream, and nobody could
explain it to him. The cupbearer then remembered what Joseph had done for him, and
Joseph was brought to Pharaoh.
"Can you understand dreams?" Pharaoh asked. "I can't, but God helps me." Joseph
replied. After Pharaoh had told him his dream Joseph explained, "God is warning you.
There will be seven years when nothing will grow and there won't be any food for
anyone."
"What can I do?" Pharaoh asked. "God has shown you what to do. There will be
seven years before the bad years that will be very good. So good that there will be
extra food for everyone. So you should save a little bit of each year’s harvest, that way
you will have enough to get you through the bad years." Joseph said.
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Pharaoh believed all that Joseph told him, and put him in charge of all the land of
Egypt.
People came from all countries to buy grain from Joseph, because the whole world was
in need of food. Some of those people were Joseph's brothers. When his brothers
came, Joseph recognized them, but they did not know who he was. (It had been over 10
years since they had seen him).
The brothers all bowed to him because he was an important person. Just as he dreamed
they would at the beginning.
After a few meetings with his brothers he could not keep it in any longer and Joseph
said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father alive?" But his brothers couldn't
answer him because they were afraid. Then Joseph said, "Come here. I am your
brother, the one you sold! Do not worry, and do not be angry at yourselves for selling
me, because God has put me here to save people from starving."
So his father, his brothers, and their families came to live in Egypt with Joseph, and
they had all the food they needed.
5. Chapter 2 Instituto Técnico Francisco José De Caldas
The educational institution INSTITUTO TECNICO FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS is
an institution of official character that offers its services to students of preschool, primary,
secondary basic and technical medium, in day time (morning and afternoon). Address: Carrera
23 # 35 – 58 in the city of Manizales.
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Pic1. Institute Francisco José De Caldas.
Pic2. Geographic Position Institute Técnico Francisco José De Caldas
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6. DATA ANALISIS
Graphic1
1. Men Women
Answers Qty Answers Qty

never 2 never 2
sometimes 16 sometimes 17
yes 4 yes 2
always 0 always 1
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By making an analysis between the smallest and the largest result, it was possible to conclude
that most of the time women find coincidences between their dreams and their reality.
Sometimes, men and women correlate, but do not establish relationships between their dreams
and their personality.
Graphic 2
1. Men Women

never 3 never 4
yes 9 yes 7
always 1 always 0
22 22
When making an analysis of the graph, both genders mainly relate their dreams to the
environment, because the activities they develop are generally stored in the unconscious and,
therefore, their dreams are generated.
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Graphic 3
1. Men Women

never 1 never 1
yes 8 yes 14
always 2 always 3
22 22
Women tend to remember their dreams more because they tend to be more detailed. However,
men also show some interest, but in small quantities because they generally reflect a certain
indifference.
Graphic 4
1. Men Women

never 12 never 8
yes 2 yes 7
always 2 always 0
22 22
Women tend to remember their dreams more because they tend to be more detailed. However,
men also show some interest, albeit in smaller numbers, because they usually reflect some
indifference.
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Graphic 5
1. Men Women

never 1 never 4
yes 11 yes 12
always 2 always 3
22 22
Both men and women relate their dreams

to their lives due to the real information
and illusions accumulated in their brains during the vigil. On other occasions there are no real-
life situations in dreams, due to the ability of humans to create fictional images.
Graphic 6
1. Men Women

never 11 never 4
yes 4 yes 5
always 1 always 1
22 22
Women tend to look for the meaning of their dreams sometimes when they think they represent
something relevant in their lives. Instead, men do not seek the meaning of their dreams,
because although they relate their dreams to their daily lives, they do not pay attention to the
way in which dreams can influence their reality.
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Graphic 7
1. Men Women

never 5 never 5
yes 7 yes 10
always 1 always 3
22 22
Both men and women who have their
dreams are important in their daily lives because their children are the reflection of the
unconscious, feelings, thoughts, worries and personal fears; and they live with them daily.
Although the number of "yes" and "sometimes" options are constant in both sexes, the female
gender tends to respond more consistently.
Graphic 8
2. Men Women

never 8 never 6
yes 2 yes 10
always 1 always 3
22 22
Women's dreams tend to be more
repetitive, while men's dreams often repeat themselves, but it is less frequent, since women
tend to be more detailed and analytical in this regard than men, because they show indifference
in these matters.
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Graphic 9
3. Men Women

never 7 never 3
yes 3 yes 8
always 2 always 4
22 22
Women often communicate their
dreams more with the different people
in their environment, while men do not, perhaps because women generally express their
emotions or thoughts more frequently, since they have a greater ability to communicate and
talk to Unlike men, who are generally more reserved An emotional environment.
Graphic 10
4. Men Women

never 9 never 1
yes 4 yes 6
always 3 always 1
22 22
According to the graph, it can be
concluded that women have a higher
relationship between their last acts or
thoughts and their dreams because they probably have a more extensive routine before going to
sleep. Although men also seem to be involved in this relationship, this is to a small extent.
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7. Evaluation & Conclusion:
7.1 Women in a higher percentage than men, in the surveys conducted at Francisco José de
Caldas School, relates their dreams to everyday life, and connects many factors of events to
what they have dreamt. Mostly this happens because women, for the most part, are more
sentimental, and connect their heart and thoughts with details that give beauty, or on the
contrary, they see beyond negative things, because when it comes to spiritual things, women
tend to romanticize everything.
7.2 Women in a higher percentage than men, in the surveys conducted at the Francisco José de
Caldas School, tend to communicate their daily events to their partners, with whom they share
their daily lives and have more affinity, for their common preferences.
7.3 . It was discovered that women of the Franciscan institute José de Caldas mostly relate their
last actions to the projections of their dreams that resemble the reality of their life with the
fantasy they have in the moments of dreaming, because they create an affective relationship
with their environment and their everyday actions.
7.4 Men do not relate their feelings with dreams as they do not see them reflected with their
reality because they are more emotionally distant than women. Therefore, they are more likely
to have dreams without connotative meanings because they just give an unconscious
manifestation of their dreams.
7.5 From the previous appointment as most of the time we spend it looking for an explanation
to our behavior within the society (either at the time of making a decision according to a
situation or circumstance), this uncertainty can be seen reflected in our dreams making us
believe that through these we can find an answer to all our questions,
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8. BOOK RESOURCES AND TEXT CITED.

SHIELDS, Linda & SKOMAL, Leonore (October 4, 2011). 12000 Dreams Interpreted.
ROBERT A, Jhonson (Sep 1, 2009) Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for
Personal Growth Paperback
SIGMOUND, Freud, (Feb 23, 2010) the Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and
Definitive Text Paperback
LARRY, BURK & and O’KEEFE, Kathleen, (April 17, 2018) Dreams That Can Save Your
Life: Early Warning Signs of Cancer and Other Diseases
1. Moss says (2015),Y sabemos que en los sueños podemos compartir las vidas de otra gente, saber cómo es vivir sus vidas, saber cómo es
andar con sus zapatos. No podemos hacerles daño, incluso ser indiferente para con ellos como lo hacemos de otra manera. Y sabemos que
soñar es una dimensión más profunda de la realidad, un mundo real, quizás más real que el mundo cotidiano, antes de ser un mundo de
fantasía. Entonces traer magia de aquel mundo a este, y volver a llenar de encanto nuestra vida. (pag.7)
2. According to MiSabueso (n.d.), www.misabueso.com/esoterica/suenos
Desde la antigüedad los sueños han sido considerados una forma de contacto con la divinidad y la mejor forma de vaticinar eventos futuros.
Los sueños nos traen cada noche universos insólitos, personajes misteriosos, visiones infernales o angelicales, episodios maravillosos que no
podríamos vivir despiertos. Soñar es abrir una puerta de la mente. Todas las esperanzas, ambiciones, deseos, miedos, fantasmas, amigos,
tiempos buenos y malos residen allí, son parte de la mente primitiva y constituyen una vía de acceso a realidades que están más allá del alcance
de la lógica, han sido objeto de estudio a través de los siglos y forman una parte importante del psicoanálisis moderno.(pag. 5)
3. According to Copado (2013) “Hasta la fecha la Onirología es menospreciada por muchas personas, pues si bien tiene bases muy
fundamentadas, mucho de lo que ocurre en nuestra mente es casi inalcanzable y no hay forma exacta de interpretar los datos que se obtienen
por medio de análisis de ondas cerebrales.” (pag.4)
4. According to euroresidentes (n.d)

En el momento que dejamos a nuestra mente libre para que pueda descansar, enseñar, advertir, desahogarse. Nuestro cerebro pone en marcha
un mecanismo de alerta y defensa y nuestro subconsciente nos enfrenta a situaciones que nos dan miedo y evitamos. Entender el significado de
nuestros sueños nos puede ayudar a reconocer lo que nos preocupa y enfrentarnos a nuestros miedos y temores
5“Para Marina Bueno, profesora en la facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, los diccionarios de interpretación de
sueños son "pura ignorancia y falta de cultura puesto que los significados son sólo individuales y depende de lo que asocie cada persona".
6. According to LaNación (n.d) “En el 90% de los casos, los sueños son el reflejo de las circunstancias personales (preocupaciones, deseos,
miedos) de las personas, explica Héctor González Ordi, profesor de la Universidad Complutense.”(pag 12)
7. According to CNN (2013)

Sigmund Freud afirmaba que los sueños nos sirven para cumplir nuestros mayores deseos. Robert Stickgold, profesor de Psiquiatría y director
del Centro para el Sueño y la Cognición de la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard, cree que los sueños "nos permiten, dentro de un marco
experimental consciente, imaginar acontecimientos y sus consecuencias"
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High school graduate project:

Francisco José de Caldas School to get an answer to our problematic question.

groups of the institution.

was a critical analysis in the answer to the problem question.

and their actions every day.

3.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT

on recent theories and research.

dreams; they have a permit from the mind to surrender to Unrealism.

3.2 JUSTIFICATION OF THE APPROACH

will help us to make a more conscious decision about things.

the I.E Francisco José de Caldas school.

students of the I.E Francisco José de Caldas School.

To collect information to recognize the importance of dreams, a survey will be applied

obtain better results from the survey.

respondents a better development of this, generating a better contextualization of the topic

4 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

4.1 INFLUENCE OF DREAMS

“Sampedro says (2013)

conclusion of some situations that might have occurred

it changes depending on people thoughts.

can serve us to face adverse situations.

4.2.1 Dreaming: Windt (2004) says:

to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be

nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself.

According to wikidictionary (2013)

Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations

understanding of how the brain works during dreaming as pertains to memory

formation and mental disorders.

of the recollections, the dreams and the thoughts. “

psychoanalysts all over the world. “

reclamar el pleno valor como actividad psíquica.”

According toVásquez (2004) “El estado de vigilia es un estado consciente que se

caracteriza por un alto nivel de actividad, en especial en relación al intercambio de

información entre el sujeto y su medio ambiente.” (p. 9)

4.2.7 Fase REM:

4.2.8 Psyche: “The psyche is a self-regulating organism in which conscious attitudes

4.2 DREAM INTERPRETATION

intangible entities. Many of these beliefs remain part of some cultures.

interpretation, but it provides an automatic stimulation of the physiological functions of the

and animal, the survival and the strategy of development.

the why of dreams, and you get to the method of interpret

would not give a really plausible explanation.

meaning of the dream.

person is, which affects and has affected of their environment.

stages of the human being.

the problem and find a solution.

4.4 DREAM INTELLECT

importance to something utopian

normality of a person, be it anguish, uncertainty, stress, happiness, among others.

meanings that offer different sources

4.5 Demographic Framework

among others; thus also (,,,)

Genesis 41:1-57; 42:1-8; 50:20.

they lived in Canaan from where his grandfather was from.

brothers to play with, or fight with?

you could imagine in it.

kind word to him.

dislike Joseph even more.

thought carefully about what Joseph had told him.

fields quite a distance away. So Joseph went to find them.

man named Potiphar, an assistant to the Pharaoh of Egypt.