Dream bizarreness and inner thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3900298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bert O States |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 179-192 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dreaming (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-0797 • E-ISSN: 1573-3351 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1023/a:1009438406510 |
| OpenAlex | W1980047732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 6 |
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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| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |