The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive by G. William Domhoff
By G. William Domhoff
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. provides a neurocognitive version of goals, drawing from empirical learn to provide an explanation for the method of dreaming and the character of dream content material. Explains the neural and cognitive bases for dreaming, how desires convey conceptions and matters, and the bounds to realizing dream content material.
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Ultimately, no definitive way may establish the fact of dreaming beyond the ubiquity of this subjective experience, but two unusual phenomena go a good part of the way in dealing with this issue: sleep talking and REM sleep-behavior disorder. Careful studies of a large number of sleep-talking episodes show that those that happen in REM are consistent with what the dreamer reports after an immediate awakening (Arkin, 1981). This finding provides objective evidence corroborating what the sleep talker then reports.
In addition, people have no reason to distort dreams written in a personal dream journal not originally meant for later researchers. The atypical nature of dream reports when compared to other types of self-reports is demonstrated empirically by comparing them with what people claim they dream about in response to questionnaires, where they provide culturally stereotypic distortions. Four different samples of college students were asked about the frequency with which they dreamed about aggressive, friendly, and sexual interactions; they then wrote down five dreams over a 2-week period.
They tend to experience dreams as something that happens to them, not as something for which they are personally responsible. Many people are therefore willing to volunteer their dreams if asked. The willingness of people to report accurately is increased when their reports are anonymous, as they are for most of the group studies cited in this book. In addition, people have no reason to distort dreams written in a personal dream journal not originally meant for later researchers. The atypical nature of dream reports when compared to other types of self-reports is demonstrated empirically by comparing them with what people claim they dream about in response to questionnaires, where they provide culturally stereotypic distortions.