Dreaming as psychosis: Re-reading Allan Hobson.

States, Bert O.

doi:10.1037/h0094485

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“…They found more literal, closely associated, and distantly associated (i.e., nonliteral) references to 9/11 in dream reports after the 9/11 video than after the education video, with the most significant difference between conditions being distantly associated references. These findings suggest that dream imagery is produced by a connectionist process that results in literal and associative or metaphoric content (Malinowski & Horton, 2015; States, 1998).…”

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Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams.

Blagrove¹,

Edwards²,

Rijn³

et al. 2019

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Throughout history, there have been reports and claims that consideration of dreams can produce personal realizations and insight. We assessed Exploration-Insight scores associated with discussing REM and non-REM dreams in connection with recent waking life experiences. Thirty-one participants were cued in the sleep laboratory for a daydream report and then awakened from REM and N2 sleep for dream reports. Participants subsequently discussed each of their dream and daydream reports for 30 -40 min with two experimenters, following the structured Ullman (1996) dream group discussion procedure. Participants assessed the benefit of discussing the reports by completing the Gains from (Day)Dream Interpretation (G[D]DI) questionnaire. We found no difference in G(D)DI scores between discussing REM and N2 dream reports, and no difference between dream and daydream discussions in engagement and thoroughness of exploring the reports. However, discussing dream reports produced higher scores on the G(D)DI Exploration-Insight subscale compared with discussing daydream reports. Significant differences were evident in items reflecting the learning This article was published Online First December 17, 2018.

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Section: Metaphors Dreams and Insightmentioning

confidence: 89%

Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams.

Blagrove¹,

Edwards²,

Rijn³

et al. 2019

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…Visual images arise, often accompanied by emotional content or other sensory perceptions, although these are not controlled, planned or manipulated due to the deactivation of the frontal lobes. The extent to which dreams reflect material that is deeply motivated, perhaps arising from the "unconscious", is subject to scrutiny and is well debated between Solms (14-15) and Hobson (16)(17), with the latter arguing that the lack of frontal control produces meaningless images as opposed to deeply meaningful and personally salient dreams.…”

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The neurocognition of dreaming: key questions and foci

Horton

2023

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

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Until recently, understanding the neurobiology of dreaming has relied upon on correlating a subjective dream report with a measure of brain activity or function sampled from a different occasion. As such, most assumptions about dreaming come from the neuroscience of rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep from which many, but not all, dream reports are recalled. Core features of REM sleep (intense emotional activation, a reduction in activity in most frontal regions, particularly the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, along with increased dopamine, acetylcholine, cholinergic activation) align with typical dream characteristics (characterised by fear, reduced reality monitoring, increased bizarreness and hyperassociativity, respectively). The default mode network offers a way of understanding the nature of dreaming more independently from a REM sleep context, and electroencephalography methods paired with serial awakenings to elicit dream reports demonstrate how high-frequency activity in posterior regions may be associated with dreaming. Nevertheless, all measures of dreaming rely fundamentally on recall processes, so our understanding of dreaming must embrace and address memory's crucial involvement in dream report production.

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“…As one who has been repeatedly critical of our approach to dream bizarreness (1993a, 13–45; 1993b, 13–31; 1997, 125–31; 1998a, 1998b), I may seem to be kicking a dead unicorn in bringing up the topic again. But, as “the defining feature of many dreams” (Hunt et al, 1993, 198) bizarreness continues to be the chief descriptive element in our characterization of dream images and events.…”

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Dream bizarreness and inner thought.

States¹

2000

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The paper offers a critique of bizarreness studies that compare dreams to real world probability ratios and directed thought processes. as a basis for determining the degree of bizarreness in dreams. It examines two cases from the literature and suggests that dreams are better compared to non-directed, or imaginative waking thought processes, specifically Inner Thought and Speech (or "speech for oneself," in Lev Vygotsky's definition), in which associative mechanisms operate freely hand in hand with (primarily) visual imagery before logical thought mechanisms come into play. The article suggests that dreams create a world order, or umwelt, with its own distinct cognitive domain in which waking considerations of efficiency, logic, and common sense are only thematically relevant. Dreams follow their own "logic" and can only be approached as thought-in-progress, or a search for coherence leading up many "blind alleys." Finally, the relevance to dreams of the Inner Thought principle of "predication," or "abbreviation" is examined.

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Dreaming as psychosis: Re-reading Allan Hobson.

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams.

Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, non-REM dreams, and daydreams.

The neurocognition of dreaming: key questions and foci

Dream bizarreness and inner thought.

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