Dreaming
Birkhäuser Boston eBooks 1988 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-6771-8_12 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Dreaming |
| Citations | 43 |
| Key points | Argues that dreaming's five characteristic features—hallucinations, delusions, cognitive abnormalities, emotional intensification, and amnesia—make it comparable to abnormal waking states in schizophrenia and organic syndromes, and proposes that the neurobiology of dreaming offers a model approach to studying mental illness, with sleep laboratory techniques enabling more systematic, psychophysiologically integrated research. |
Abstract
Dreaming is a distinctive mental state that occurs periodically in normal human sleep. Typical dream reports include such psychological features as hallucinations, delusions, cognitive abnormalities, emotional intensification, and amnesia. These five remarkable features of dreaming have invited its comparison to abnormal states of mind occurring during waking in certain clinical conditions, especially schizophrenia and organic syndromes. The exploration of the neurobiological basis of dreaming therefore constitutes not only an aspect of mind-body interaction but also a model approach to the study of mental illness. An obvious problem is that the unconfirmable nature of all subjective experience is compounded by difficult access to the mind in sleep. The recent development of sleep laboratory techniques has given the study of dreaming a more instrumental and systematic character, and the emerging picture encourages psychophysiological integration.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on dreaming, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dreaming: a conceptual framework for philosophy of mind and empirical research | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Metaphor and hyperassociativity: the imagination mechanisms behind emotion assimilation in sleep and dreaming | 2015 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Varieties of Lucid Dreaming Experience | 2000 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Experimental Research on Dreaming: State of the Art and Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Neurobiology of Consciousness: Lucid Dreaming Wakes Up | 2009 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
Citations in the library
Cited by 12
- A systems approach to self‐organization in the dreaming brain Kybernetes December 1, 2002
- Rethinking Jung’s Reception of Kant and the Naturphilosophen International Journal of Jungian Studies October 17, 2023
- Patterns of evidentials use in dream narratives Cognition communication discourse August 31, 2023
- Psychoneurological Dimensions of Anomalous Experience in Relation to Religious Belief and Spiritual Practic Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks 2005
- Psychophysiological Aspects of Dreaming Journal of Nihon University Medical Association 2011
and 7 more in the library