Author Topic: Sleep Patterns of Liberals & Conservatives (Read 109 times)

Low Key · « **on:** August 25, 2005, 03:07:00 AM »

Source: http://www.kellybulkeley.com/dream_politices.htm

The liberals and conservatives in this study are not radically different species, at least when it comes to sleep and dreaming. People of both political persuasions share a common substrate of basic human sleep and dream experience.

Conservatives sleep more soundly, with fewer dreams. Liberals have more restless sleep and a more active dream life. Conservatives sleep somewhat longer, with better sleep quality; they recall fewer dreams, but report more lucid dreams (especially conservative men). Liberals (particularly liberal women) have worse sleep quality, recall a greater number and variety of dreams, and have more dreams of homosexuality.

Liberals and conservatives report a roughly equal proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. This is different from my earlier study (using dreams gathered from 1996-2000), when the conservatives had many more nightmarish dreams than the liberals. In the present study (using dreams gathered post-September 11, 2001 to the end of 2004), the conservative frequency of negative dreams is somewhat less, while the liberal frequency is much higher. It appears liberals have become more upset and troubled in their dreams, while conservatives have become less so in theirs.

The dreams of liberals are more bizarre than the dreams of conservatives. This is consistent with my earlier findings. Liberals have more dreams with unusual, distorted, fantastic elements than conservatives, whose dreams are more likely to portray normal characters, settings, and activities.

I thought this was pretty interesting even though it seems pretty ridiculous in a couple of the points.

Don Seer · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2005, 03:12:46 AM »

so conversatives are safe and boring with no imagination... figures

Sikotic™ · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2005, 06:38:09 PM »

It all makes sense to me.

J Bananas · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2005, 07:12:36 PM »

Doesn't surprise me, conservatives sleep better because they're uncle tom's when it comes to problems with the government. they get to sleep near the master in the most comfortable surroundings so when someone complains about the government fucking up they get their panties in a twist, but still they get to go back to being the bitch and that's better to them than being on the outside, or in modern terms, around progress.