3 papers in the library · publishing 2018
March 29, 2018 Otto M. Rheinschmiedt
There is an irresistible affinity between the fictions of dreams and fiction writing. Dreams dazzle us by their vivid and succinct images, symbols, and metaphors, which come upon us when we are asleep. One might be tempted, given the dream’s constant supply of images, to call dreaming a nocturnal cinematographic event. Dreams are autobiographical fictions, they are the narrators of the...
March 29, 2018 Otto M. Rheinschmiedt
One of Freud’s assumptions on dreaming, that “dreams are the guardians of sleep”, was proven wrong by sleep researchers. Freud’s notion was that one of the functions of dreaming is to preserve sleep. The researchers found the reverse to be true, namely that “sleep is the guardian of dreams”. Dream consciousness uses more energy than waking consciousness; it uses so much energy that its reserves...
March 29, 2018 Otto M. Rheinschmiedt
One of the oldest depictions of a dream state is a mural in the complex of caves at Lascaux in southwest France, painted some 18,000 years ago by our European early modern human ancestors. The prehistoric cave paintings of the Perigord area of France, going back to 30,000 BC, are considered the cradle of art in human history but are also a celebration of the state of dreaming. Dreams not only...