Dreaming as fascinated predictions: bridging Sartre’s phenomenology and predictive processing
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences October 16, 2025 Rasmus Sinn, Marc Borner
Abstract Jean-Paul Sartre develops a phenomenological account of dreaming in his early work on the imaginary. Providing a brief but rich analysis, he emphasizes the active and imaginative nature of consciousness during dreaming and distinguished it sharply from perception. This paper revisits Sartre’s dream theory in light of the neuroscientific and philosophical framework of Predictive...