Are Dreams Narrative Experiences? How Assumptions About Fictional Narratives Shape Debates on Dream Experiences
Topoi December 3, 2025 Gaia Mizzon, Jennifer Windt
The concept of narrative is widespread in the philosophical literature on dreams. Although several works have examined the putative narrative character of dreams by drawing on narratology, literary theory, and semiotics, there has been virtually no investigation of how preconceptions about the resemblance between fictional narratives and retrospective dream reports have shaped the philosophical...