Studying dream experience through dream reports: Points of contact between dream research and first-person methods in consciousness science
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Proposes that first-person methods from consciousness research could improve the study of dreaming's phenomenological features. |
Abstract
In this chapter, we present the problem of dream reports in philosophy and empirical research, examine how the variability of methods and measures influences research results, and suggest that research on the phenomenological features of dreaming could benefit from insights from first-person methods in consciousness research. We consider two interview-based methods developed for acquiring detailed phenomenological reports on waking subjective experience - descriptive experience sampling (Hurlburt, 1990, 2011) and micro-phenomenology (Petitmengin, 2006) - discuss their applicability in dream research, and outline some promising research directions. [Manuscript for a chapter in Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues; prior to peer-review.]