Correspondences in visual imaging and spatial orientation in dreaming and film viewing.

Cook, Roger F.

doi:10.1037/a0022866

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“…For example, Wamsley and Stickgold (2010) describe the impact of a skiing arcade game on subsequent dream content as “dramatic.” If subjects are trained on a virtual maze navigation task, performance at retest is strongly associated with the task-related dream imagery experienced during an intervening nap; in contrast, waking thoughts about the virtual navigation task in the interval did not predict improvement (Wamsley et al 2010). Such results are congruent with Cook's (2011) conclusion that the visual imagery of dreaming and of cinematic scenes both rely upon a similar construction of navigable space. Thus, evidence from a variety of sources strongly supports the inference that spatial navigation abilities characterize human dreaming (for an illustrative spatial navigation dream, see Hobson 2005, pp.…”

Section: Dreaming and Memory In Neurobiologysupporting

confidence: 87%

Such stuff as dreams are made on? Elaborative encoding, the ancient art of memory, and the hippocampus

Llewellyn¹

2013

Behav Brain Sci

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This article argues that rapid eye movement (REM) dreaming is elaborative encoding for episodic memories. Elaborative encoding in REM can, at least partially, be understood through ancient art of memory (AAOM) principles: visualization, bizarre association, organization, narration, embodiment, and location. These principles render recent memories more distinctive through novel and meaningful association with emotionally salient, remote memories. The AAOM optimizes memory performance, suggesting that its principles may predict aspects of how episodic memory is configured in the brain. Integration and segregation are fundamental organizing principles in the cerebral cortex. Episodic memory networks interconnect profusely within the cortex, creating omnidirectional "landmark" junctions. Memories may be integrated at junctions but segregated along connecting network paths that meet at junctions. Episodic junctions may be instantiated during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep after hippocampal associational function during REM dreams. Hippocampal association involves relating, binding, and integrating episodic memories into a mnemonic compositional whole. This often bizarre, composite image has not been present to the senses; it is not "real" because it hyperassociates several memories. During REM sleep, on the phenomenological level, this composite image is experienced as a dream scene. A dream scene may be instantiated as omnidirectional neocortical junction and retained by the hippocampus as an index. On episodic memory retrieval, an external stimulus (or an internal representation) is matched by the hippocampus against its indices. One or more indices then reference the relevant neocortical junctions from which episodic memories can be retrieved. Episodic junctions reach a processing (rather than conscious) level during normal wake to enable retrieval. If this hypothesis is correct, the stuff of dreams is the stuff of memory.

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Section: Dreaming and Memory In Neurobiologysupporting

confidence: 87%

Such stuff as dreams are made on? Elaborative encoding, the ancient art of memory, and the hippocampus

Llewellyn¹

2013

Behav Brain Sci

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“…The philosopher Colin McGinn argues that “movies arouse in the viewer the same kinds of psychological mechanisms and processes that characterize the dreaming state,” and he speculates that our ability to comprehend cinematic techniques stems from our experience as dreamers (, 102). The film studies scholar, Roger Cook, has argued that there is a correspondence between the “neurophysiological states during dreaming and film viewing” (, 91). Scholars of dreaming have also remarked on this affinity, if mostly in passing.…”

Section: Introducing Celebrity Dreamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dreaming of the Kardashians: Media Content in the Dreams of US College Students

Sheriff¹

2017

Ethos

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The neurocognitive theory of dreaming posits that there is a specific neural network for dreaming and that dream content is continuous with a dreamer's waking concerns. This article extends this model of dreaming by arguing that the continuity principle applies not only to intrapsychic states; dream content also frequently indexes significant shifts in the cultural atmosphere. A prominent but understudied exemplar of such indices is the appearance of media content in dreams. This article underscores such media content as an area worthy of anthropological scrutiny and focuses on celebrity dreams among US college students as a site for theorizing the imbrication of dreaming, self, and culture. It is argued that celebrity dreams index recent and dramatic shifts in media ecologies (including embodied engagement with smartphones and formative encounters with reality television) as well as middle‐class young women's interiorized struggles over the expectations and exhortations associated with mounting a neoliberal and feminine public self.

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“…So in dreams too, the availability of external perspectives may signal the flexibility of our self‐representational capacities, rather than their disruption, incompleteness, and weakness (Occhionero ). To note just two lines for inquiry, which could draw on established methods elsewhere in psychology, it would be useful to know if the emotions generally associated with distinctive perspectives in memory also typically accompany those perspectives in dreams and to get a better grip on the role of perspective in the way we represent our own movements through space both in waking and dreaming cognition (Schönhammer ; Cook ; Tversky ).…”

Section: Perspective In Dreamsmentioning

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Self‐Representation and Perspectives in Dreams

Rosen

Sutton

2013

Philosophy Compass

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Integrative and naturalistic philosophy of mind can both learn from and contribute to the contemporary cognitive sciences of dreaming. Two related phenomena concerning self-representation in dreams demonstrate the need to bring disparate fields together. In most dreams, the protagonist or dream self who experiences and actively participates in dream events is or represents the dreamer: but in an intriguing minority of cases, self-representation in dreams is displaced, disrupted, or even absent. Working from dream reports in established databanks, we examine two key forms of polymorphism of self-representation: dreams (or dream episodes) in which I take an external visuospatial perspective on myself, and those in which I take someone else's perspective on events. In remembering my past experiences or imagining future or possible experiences when awake, I sometimes see myself from an external or 'observer' perspective. By relating the issue of perspective in dreams to established research traditions in the study of memory and imagery, and noting the flexibility of perspective in dreams, we identify new lines of enquiry. In other dreams, the dreamer does not appear to figure at all, and the first person perspective on dream events is occupied by someone else, some other person or character. We call these puzzling cases 'vicarious dreams' and assess some potential ways to make sense of them. Questions about self-representation and perspectives in dreams are intriguing in their own right and pose empirical and conceptual problems about the nature of self-representation with implications beyond the case of dreaming.

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Correspondences in visual imaging and spatial orientation in dreaming and film viewing.

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Such stuff as dreams are made on? Elaborative encoding, the ancient art of memory, and the hippocampus

Such stuff as dreams are made on? Elaborative encoding, the ancient art of memory, and the hippocampus

Dreaming of the Kardashians: Media Content in the Dreams of US College Students

Self‐Representation and Perspectives in Dreams

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