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  • Chapter 10 - Dream Varieties

  • from Part II - Dreams
  • Patrick McNamara, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams
    Published online:
    15 February 2019
    Print publication:
    28 February 2019, pp 171-193

  • Summary

    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.