Dream bizarreness and inner thought.

States, Bert O.

doi:10.1023/a:1009438406510

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“…Bert States has raised this point: when we dream, we do not experience the content of the dream as bizarre; rather, we just accept whatever our brain throws our way as the fact of the matter. 20 A sense of bizarreness emerges as soon as we wake up and compare the dream with our beliefs and expectations about "awake" reality. This implies that dreams are a full-fl edged mode of thinking.…”

Section: Dreaming Research: a Thumbnail Sketchmentioning

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Edgar Allan Poe Simulators

Caracciolo¹

2019

Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media

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Murders in the Rue Morgue (ERS G-Studio, 2009), a puzzle game for mobile platforms. This success is a sign of Poe's enduring popularity within and without the United States; it refl ects the capacity of his work to speak to a broad audience. Mark Neimeyer has explained this popularity by highlighting Poe's "ambiguous position between highbrow and lowbrow culture," which makes "him especially appealing to the general public." 1 Poe himself famously remarked that "The Raven" (1845) was intended to be a poem which would "suit at once the popular and the critical taste." 2 This chapter will approach Poe's work from a different, but complementary, angle. Rather than exploring the extent of Poe's contribution to popular culture, as other scholars have done, 3 I will consider one of the reasons for his lasting appeal and suggest that Poe's short stories, and particularly his classic horror tales, are so effective because they are-to borrow Emily Troscianko's term-"cognitively realistic." 4 Troscianko introduces this concept in a book-length study of Kafka's fi ction in which she argues that Kafka's major works recreate

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Section: Dreaming Research: a Thumbnail Sketchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Edgar Allan Poe Simulators

Caracciolo¹

2019

Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media

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“…There is a sense in which "anything goes" during dreaming; hence the much-discussed aspect of "bizarreness" in dreams (e.g. States, 2000). In writing poetry, this simply is not true.…”

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Dream poetry as dream work.

Russo¹

2003

Dreaming

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This paper explores the relationship between dream poetry and dream work by presenting a representative dream poem, along with the text of the dream that inspired it; examining some of its poetic qualities and showing how these figured in the writing of the poem; and comparing the dream writing process to dream interpretation and to Jungian active imagination work. The formal demands of poetry introduce a unique type of critical thought into the creative process that develops the dream material in ways different from other forms of dream work. Writing dream poetry differs from hoth dream interpretation and active imagination in important ways, hut can he viewed as a form of non-interpretative dream work. These observations are probably generalizable to all forms of dream writing and dream art.

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“…However, Knudson (2001) observes that the literature on highly significant dreams is filled with references to the bizarreness of their content, but suggests that “unrealistic” might be a better descriptor. States (2000) also objects to the term “bizarre” because dreams follow their own “logic” and can best be thought of as “thoughts-in-process” (p. 179).…”

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The use of the Strauch Scale to study dream reports from sacred sites in England and Wales.

Krippner

Devereux²,

Fish³

2003

Dreaming

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Thirty-five volunteers spent between one and five nights in one offour unfamiliar outdoor "sacred sites" in England and Wales where they were awakenedfollowing rapid eye movement periods and asked for dream recall. They also monitored their dreams in familiar home surroundings, keeping dream diaries. Equal numbers of site dreams and home dream reports were obtained for each volunteer. Two judges, working blind and independently, evaluated each of the resulting 206 dream reports, using the Strauch Scale which contains criteria for identifying "bizarre," "magical," and "paranormal" elements. Of the 103 site dream reports, 46 fell into one of these categories, versus 31 of the home dream reports. A number of explanations exist for this difference, including expectancy, suggestion, the effect of unfamiliar surroundings, the nature of the volunteers' awakenings, and possible anomalous properties of the sacred sites. The latter possibility, however, is unlikely due to the fact the 22 volunteers reported site dreams containing Strauch Scale items, while 20 reported home dreams containing these content items, a minimal difference.

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Dream bizarreness and inner thought.

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

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Edgar Allan Poe Simulators

Dream poetry as dream work.

The use of the Strauch Scale to study dream reports from sacred sites in England and Wales.

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