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Chapter 10 - Dream Varieties

from Part II - Dreams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

Patrick McNamara
Patrick McNamara
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Boston University
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A theory of dreams must be able to explain why people think they have mutual dreams, precognitive dreams, and visitations of loved ones from beyond the grave. Simple dismissive explanations that these people are gullible won’t do as the gullibility account does not explain the similar phenomenologies and content features of these extraordinary dreams. The fact that sensorially limited individuals such as people with blindness, deaf-mute, and paraplegic conditions nevertheless have dreams where none of these impairments exist must also be explained in any decent theory of dreams.

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The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams , pp. 171 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Dream Varieties
  • Patrick McNamara, Boston University
  • Book: The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
  • Online publication: 15 February 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316817094.013
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  • Dream Varieties
  • Patrick McNamara, Boston University
  • Book: The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316817094.013
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  • Dream Varieties
  • Patrick McNamara, Boston University
  • Book: The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
  • Online publication: 15 February 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316817094.013
Available formats
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