Dreaming and mind wandering: Spontaneous thought across the sleep-wake cycle. Editorial introduction
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences January 5, 2026 Jennifer Windt, Manuela Kirberg, Tomas Andrillon
This special issue unites original theoretical and empirical research on two topics that are gaining traction in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, but so far have small philosophical footprints: dreaming and waking mind wandering. While the fields of dream and mind wandering research are largely separate, phenomenological and neurophysiological similarities between waking mind wandering...