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E. Pace-Schott

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Dreaming as a story-telling instinct

Frontiers in Psychology April 2, 2013 E. Pace-Schott

Dreams create new stories out of nothing. Although dreams contain themes, concerns, dream figures, objects, etc. that correspond closely to waking life, these are only story elements. The story itself weaves these mnemonic items together in a manner far more novel than a simple assemblage or collage, producing an experience having a life-like timeframe and life-like (if often bizarre and...