Dreaming in Arará: An Empirical Nightmare
JT Torres
InTensions November 1, 2016 DOI: 10.25071/1913-5874/37396 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Dreaming |
| Key points | Argues that treating dreams as data disrupts normative notions of what counts as experience and opens more transgressive ways of relating in the world, made possible through artistic inquiry into dreaming. Proposes that dreams function as an epistemic process through which the researcher can come to know herself and her relation to the world, illustrated through creative nonfiction fieldwork in Cuba. |
Abstract
The following essay employs creative nonfiction to explore the space of dreams as an opportunity to flesh out cross-cultural understandings of art’s capacity or limits to materialize new ways of relating in the world. Treating dreams as data disrupts the normative notion of what counts as experience. By drawing on Joan Scott and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, I argue for more transgressive approaches to relating in the world, made possible through artistic inquiries into the imaginable, irruptive act of dreaming. Blended with my argument is a creative nonfiction essay of my fieldwork in Cuba, in which dreams are treated as an epistemic process and, therefore, a means to which I, as a researcher, can also come to know myself and my relation in the world.
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 |