Dream function reconsidered.

Lerner, Barbara

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“…On the one hand, as described in the Tibetan yogic literature (see Evans-Wentz, 1958, pp. 217-218), meditation may increase the accessibility to the subcortical centers controllmg the degree of arousal during the REM state (Jones, 1970), thereby providing a possible means to increase the vividness of dreams and their consolidation for later recall (Goleman, 1971). On the other hand, the relation between kmesthesia and the retrieval of dreams (Lerner, 1967;Schachtel, 1947), the higher incidence of Rorschach movement responses among frequent dream recallers (Orlinsky, 1966), and the facilitate effect of meditation on the producticn of such Rorschach responses (Heider, 1969) suggest that meditation might increase accessibility to the control processes relating to the retrieval of dream memories.…”

Section: Implications For Future Researchmentioning

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Learning to Remember Dreams

Reed¹

1973

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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HENRY REED received his PhD from UCLA in 1970 and is a shirtmaker. For the past three years he has also served as a psychology professor at Princeton University, where he has worked with others in a program of education and reality testing to construct interfacings between awakening and dreaming consciousness. Recently, Henry has been consulting with the Clinic and Research Center for Jungian Psychology in Zumch, on the mcubation of healing and inspirational dreams; and with the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, on a transpersonalized ritual for parapsychological research. Besides talking to plants and animals, his greatest joy is to fly on his bicycle, and whenever possible, on foot. This paper is dedicated to Gayle, whose loving reminders have helped Henry recognize what he knows. ABSTRACTThe possibility of learning to remember dreams was explored with the cooperation of a group of participant-observers who maintained dream diaries for 12 weeks and were selected on the basis of their desire to experience improved dream recall. A self-administered dream recall rating scale was devised which provided measures of several aspects of memory for dreams. The participants apparently increased their ability to retrieve dream memories, but their actual level of dream recall performance was subject to motivational fluctuations. On the other hand, although the participants claimed to have developed no control over the vividness of their memory for dreams, this aspect of their dream recall nevertheless evidenced substantial improvement. The possibility of improving memory for dreams being confirmed, future research should provide ( a ) more information concerning the control processes governing dream recall, and ( b ) information concerning how to increase volitional access to these processes.

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Section: Implications For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning to Remember Dreams

Reed¹

1973

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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“…Lerner,22 for example, has recently argued that kinesthetic activity and kinesthetic fantasy (of the sort that takes place in dreaming) are necessary to maintain the coherence of the body image, once formed, although no amount of kinesthetic fantasy can restore an already disintegrated body image. Several different approaches to the treatment of schizophrenia share a concern with direct modification of body experience.…”

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Perceptual Manifestations of Experimentally Enhanced Body Boundary Experience

Palmer¹

1970

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Results of the present study suggest that by articulating an individual's experience of the surface of his body one can differentially sensitize him to the surface qualities of external, nonbody objects. These results are consistent both with sensory-tonic field theoretical research demonstrating the interactive nature of body and nonbody spatial coordinate systems, and with body image research relating patterns of body activation or attention to the perception of inkblot stimuli. Past body-image research has been primarily correlative in nature and has tended to view patterns of body activation as a response to one's "body image." By experimentally manipulating subjects* body experience-treating it as the independent variable-the present study raises questions as to the nature of the underlying causal relationship between body experience and body image, and the relative weight to be given historical vs contemporary determinants of the body image.

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“…Barbara Lerner developed an idea of Hermann Rorschach's whereby internalized body image provides the phenomenological basis for the self image necessary for negotiating the world, especially the social world (Lerner 1967;Rorschach 1942;cf. Barbara Lerner developed an idea of Hermann Rorschach's whereby internalized body image provides the phenomenological basis for the self image necessary for negotiating the world, especially the social world (Lerner 1967;Rorschach 1942;cf.…”

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“…First is the notion of self. Barbara Lerner developed an idea of Hermann Rorschach's whereby internalized body image provides the phenomenological basis for the self image necessary for negotiating the world, especially the social world (Lerner 1967;Rorschach 1942;cf. Damasio 1999:22).…”

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Dreaming, Adaptation, and Consciousness.The Social Mapping Hypothesis

Brereton¹

2000

Ethos

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This article develops and tests the social mapping hypothesis, namely, that the neurophysiology of dreaming may have been a preadaptation for the evolution of hominid consciousness. Dreaming locates the dreamer in emotionally salient social space, a trait possibly derived from hippocampal spatial mapping. This skill in self‐imaging and location can be correlated with the broader social brain hypothesis. Dreaming is thus expected to share significant features with consciousness, symbolization, and cognitive mechanisms pertaining to culture; and it is shown to do so. Rival models of consciousness and dream function are compared and assessed, and Flanagan's assertion that dreaming is epiphenomenal is challenged.

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Dream function reconsidered.

Cited by 25 publications

References 59 publications

Learning to Remember Dreams

Learning to Remember Dreams

Perceptual Manifestations of Experimentally Enhanced Body Boundary Experience

Dreaming, Adaptation, and Consciousness.The Social Mapping Hypothesis

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