I have chosen to research a topic that can concern anyone: dreams. It's something that people are less likely to consider socially applicable; rather, they think dreams are personal. Perhaps through further analysis and studies more applications for dreams in social life can be found. Dreams can say much more about how a person functions in society than one might initially think. In this article I will examine some of the ways that people interact with others in and through dreams. Overall, the articles support the idea that people use dreams, both during and after dreaming, to tell other people how they feel or think. The way they act in real situations can be mirrored in the way they act in dreams (Domino, 1976). Some societies place more emphasis on what they think in their dreams than when they make conscious judgments and decisions. Gender and age also play a role in applying and sharing dreams (Morewedge & Norton, 2009). There may be a gender difference in the number of dreams a person shares. Who a dreamer shares their dreams with can indicate how close they feel to a person (Szmigielska & Holda, 2007). Finally, the sex of the dreamer can determine which gender dreams more (Hall, 1984). Predicting Behavior in Dreams Domino (1976) evaluated Jung's theory that when people dream, their behavior is opposite to what they usually display in a waking state. His study included seventy-three men, aged 18 to 25, from a single university. They were asked to keep a dream diary for two weeks and after the two weeks they underwent numerous psychological tests. Since most participants had at least three dreams over the course of two weeks, only three dreams were used for each participant. Domino used two... halves of the paper... in real life. Using dreams as a way to explain society may not be as unreasonable as previously thought. Works Cited Domino, G. (1976). Compensatory aspects of dreams: An empirical test of Jung's theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(4), 658-662.Hall, C.S. (1984). “An omnipresent sexual difference in dreams” revisited. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46(5), 1109-1117.Morewedge, C. K. & Norton, M. I. (2009). When to dream to believe: The (motivated) interpretation of dreams. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(2), 249-264. Szmigielska, B., & Holda, M. (2007). Students' opinions on the role of dreams in human life. Dreaming, 17(3), 152-158.Urbina, S. P., & Gray, A. (1975). Cultural and sexual differences in the sexual distribution of dream characters. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 6(3), 358-364.