Metamorphosed Characters in Dreams: Constraints of Conceptual Structure and Amount of Theory of Mind
Cognitive Science May 1, 2010 Richard Schweickert, Zhuangzhuang Xi 9 citations
Dream reports from 21 dreamers in which a metamorphosis of a person-like entity or animal occurred were coded for characters and animals and for inner states attributed to them (Theory of Mind). In myths and fairy tales, Kelly and Keil (1985) found that conscious beings (people, gods) tend to be transformed into entities nearby in the conceptual structure of Keil (1979). This also occurred in...