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Varieties of Consciousness: Comparison of Some Cognitive Characteristics

Lucien A. Buck

Perceptual and Motor Skills February 1, 1970 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1970.30.1.183 (opens in new tab)

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Key points The results indicate that dreams, hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences, depersonalization, déjà vu, synesthesia, and daydreams can be differentiated by means of a series of descriptive characteristics.

Abstract

The present study was an attempt to describe and contrast a variety of states of consciousness. The results indicate that dreams, hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences, depersonalization, déjà vu, synesthesia, and daydreams can be differentiated by means of a series of descriptive characteristics.