Do we dream in color? Cultural variations and skepticism.

Schwitzgebel, Eric; Huang, Chang-Bing; Yi-feng, Zhou

doi:10.1037/1053-0797.16.1.36

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“…Schwitzgebel repeatedly (2002; 2011; Schwitzgebel et al, 2006) describes the possibility of a change in dreaming as opposed to a change in dream reporting as unlikely, defending the claim that either all or a certain group of subjects have mistaken opinions about the occurrence of color in their dreams. The deeper point, however, is that because all three interpretations are possible, and given that none of them can be ruled out at the outset, this finding itself undermines, or so it might seem, the transparency assumption with respect to reports of colored dreaming.…”

Section: Skepticism About Dream Reportingmentioning

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Reporting dream experience: Why (not) to be skeptical about dream reports

Windt

2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Are dreams subjective experiences during sleep? Is it like something to dream, or is it only like something to remember dreams after awakening? Specifically, can dream reports be trusted to reveal what it is like to dream, and should they count as evidence for saying that dreams are conscious experiences at all? The goal of this article is to investigate the relationship between dreaming, dream reporting and subjective experience during sleep. I discuss different variants of philosophical skepticism about dream reporting and argue that they all fail. Consequently, skeptical doubts about the trustworthiness of dream reports are misguided, and for systematic reasons. I suggest an alternative, anti-skeptical account of the trustworthiness of dream reports. On this view, dream reports, when gathered under ideal reporting conditions and according to the principle of temporal proximity, are trustworthy (or transparent) with respect to conscious experience during sleep. The transparency assumption has the status of a methodologically necessary default assumption and is theoretically justified because it provides the best explanation of dream reporting. At the same time, it inherits important insights from the discussed variants of skepticism about dream reporting, suggesting that the careful consideration of these skeptical arguments ultimately leads to a positive account of why and under which conditions dream reports can and should be trusted. In this way, moderate distrust can be fruitfully combined with anti-skepticism about dream reporting. Several perspectives for future dream research and for the comparative study of dreaming and waking experience are suggested.

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Section: Skepticism About Dream Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…His position is also special in that it has prompted a number of follow-up studies, including his own (Schwitzgebel, 2003; Schwitzgebel et al, 2006). At the same time, it is not clear that his argument targets the transparency assumption as defined here at all.…”

Section: Skepticism About Dream Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reporting dream experience: Why (not) to be skeptical about dream reports

Windt

2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…The dream recall scale had a Likert format which might increase error variance by not giving distinctive categories including about once a month or about once a week as in other scales (cf. Although the differences in mean status between these schools are large (Schwitzgebel, et al, 2006), a direct measure would have been preferable. Several studies, however, indicate that these types of scales showed high intercorrelations (Schredl, 2007).…”

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Dream Recall Frequency by Socioeconomic Status of Chinese Students

Schredl

2007

Percept Mot Skills

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Whereas the effect of sex and age on dream recall have been studied widely, socioeconomic status has rarely been investigated. However, two studies reported that higher socioeconomic status was related to greater frequency of dream recall. In the present sample of 612 Chinese students from three different schools, one elite (high socioeconomic status), one rural (low socioeconomic status) and one intermediate, analysis of variance indicated no significant association between frequency of dream recall and socioeconomic status. Researchers could investigate whether "dream socialization," e.g., encouragement of a child to remember his dreams, depends on socioeconomic background, whether these processes are mediated by culture.

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“…For instance, in a Chinese study about dreaming in color (Schwitzgebel, Huang, & Zhou, 2006), the subjects were asked: "How frequently do you dream?" and were required to answer on a five-point scale, in which each point was assigned a relative value (i.e., very frequently, frequently, occasionally, rarely, never).…”

Section: Dream-recall Frequency By Retrospective Measurementioning

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Dream Recall and the Dissociation between Dream Cessation and Neurological Memory Disorders

2007

Neuropsychoanalysis

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Do we dream in color? Cultural variations and skepticism.

Cited by 48 publications

References 9 publications

Reporting dream experience: Why (not) to be skeptical about dream reports

Reporting dream experience: Why (not) to be skeptical about dream reports

Dream Recall Frequency by Socioeconomic Status of Chinese Students

Dream Recall and the Dissociation between Dream Cessation and Neurological Memory Disorders

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