Dream self-reflectiveness as a learned cognitive skill.
Sleep 1986 S Purcell, J Mullington, A Moffitt et al.
This research was directed toward the contradiction sustained by cognitive dream psychology, which on the one hand regards dreaming as higher symbolic activity and, on the other, sees its organizational and functional characteristics as derivative and/or inferior to those of waking consciousness. Study 1 evaluates the degree of self-reflective meta-cognition in dreams from different sleep...