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- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
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- Subject: Dreams (was Re: "Falling" Asleep)
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:55:04 GMT
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- In article <106373@netnews.upenn.edu> rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu
- (Mickey Rowe) writes:
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- >In any case, Seligman and Yager surveyed a bunch of undergraduates
- >here at Penn about the content of their dreams.
-
- Whoops! I just want to post a correction since I remembered last
- night that Marty's co-author's name on that paper was Amy Yellen.
- Since I'm already posting a correction, I figured I might as well try
- to dig up the whole reference. Here it is:
-
- Seligman, M. and Yellen, A. (1987). "What is a Dream?", _Behavior
- Research and Therapy", 25(1):1-24.
-
- The Abstract of the paper reads:
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- ABSTRACT: Describes a dream theory that suggests that dreaming consists
- of 3 elements. The theory predicts that there are 2 kinds of
- visual imagery in dreams: one vivid, detailed, colorful,
- large, and in the center of the visual field; and the other
- less vivid, less detailed, less colorful, smaller, and in
- the periphery. It is consistent with the incongruence of
- events in dreaming, the transmogrification of images and
- setting, and the incorporation of external intrusions. The
- theory suggests why causality is linear in dreaming, specifies
- the psychological differences between dreaming and waking,
- and between REM and nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and
- comments on the notion of ""scene'' and the ability to
- ""control'' dream content. The theory also suggests that the
- cognitive synthesis is the most likely place to find the
- ""meaning'' of dream. Evidence supporting the theory is
- presented in 2 experiments, using approximately 80
- undergraduates who reported their dreams.
-
-
- >Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-
- Ibid
-