Memories of the past help us adaptively respond to similar situations in the future. Originally
described by Schacter & Addis in 2007, the “constructive episodic simulation” hypothesis …

The present study aimed to explore autobiographical memories (long‐lasting memories
about the self) and episodic memories (memories about discrete episodes or events) within …

Dreams are often believed to be “symbolic” and thus categorically distinct from the “ordinary”
thoughts of waking cognition. But to the contrary, emerging evidence suggests that dreams …

Continuity between waking life and dreaming has typically been studied via the quantitative
analysis of dream reports, which has illustrated that dreaming reflects waking-life …

I propose a narrative fabrication thesis of dream reports, according to which dream reports
are often not accurate representations of experiences that occur during sleep. I begin with …

Memories of waking-life events are incorporated into dreams, but their incorporation is not
uniform across a night of sleep. This study aimed to elucidate ways in which such memory …

We all have the intuition that our dreams in some way relate to experiences from waking life.
Even in cases in which no specific event presents itself as the likely source of a particular …

Dreaming has often been viewed as a “mysterious” experience entirely distinct from waking
cognition. An alternative view proposes that dreams are generated by the same fundamental …

Daydreaming mentally transports people to another place or time. Many daydreams are
similar in content to the thoughts that people generate when they intentionally try to forget …

Memories constitute much of the source material for our dreams. Although waking life events
are not faithfully replayed in dreams, dream content arises from recent daily experiences …