Originally published in 1959, with some corrections in 1962, the author examines the
common view at the time that dreams are mental activities or mental occurrences taking place …

… If dreaming does have any biologically adaptive functions, they must have been … dreaming
into an entirely new light, which suggests that the biologically adaptive function of dreaming is …

… Through dreaming we can perceive other worlds, which we can certainly describe, but we
can't … Yet we can feel how dreaming opens up those other realms. Dreaming seems to be a …

… Why the blackfellow thinks thinks of " dreaming" as the nearest equivalent in English is a
puzzle. It may be because it is by the act of dreaming, as reality and symbol, that the aboriginal …

… the sciences of dreaming in this way, this chapter omits discussion of dreaming in the history
… of practical attitudes to dreaming. Among the intriguing live questions in the psychology of …

… of dreaming in the process of adaptation. The majority of the chapters in this book propose
dynamic functional theories of dreaming. They differ in the extent to which dreaming is seen …

During a single lifetime a person devotes at least 50,000 hours to dreaming. Despite intensive
study, our understanding has been obscured by psychoanalytic theories that see dreams …

… should be rejected in favor of an imagination model of dreaming… dreaming, and partially in
agreement with Ernest Sosa, who has argued that we do not form false beliefs while dreaming…

Dreaming is a universal human mental state characterized by hallucinatory imagery
congruent with a confabulated, temporally ordered, storylike experience. As in waking …

Why do we spend so much time sleeping? What are the neural and chemical mechanisms
that produce this state? What makes us dream? These are some of the central issues that …