I’m thinking your thoughts while I sleep: Sense of agency and ownership over dream thought.

Abstract

found that although TI and AH both occur in dreams, TI is very rare. This is an interesting result since TI is common in patients with schizophrenia. I propose two speculative lines of explanation for the rarity of TI in dreams: first, the cognitive differences between the symptoms of schizophrenia and dreams, and second, the problem of dream reporting conditions. Dream reporting conditions are particularly important, as without controls, reports can be vague. Analysis of dream reports reveals that it is often unclear whether 'hearing voices' indicates sound phenomenology or thought phenomenology. I propose that dream reports could be disambiguated given the right experimental conditions and I suggest how this could be achieved in future experimental research.

The Utilitarian's Guide to Dreams

“…But of course, there is a kind of experience that we have when we sleep, which can make the term ‘unconscious’ slightly ill‐fitting: dreams. Dreams have recently received significant attention from philosophers regarding whether they have implications for our theories of consciousness (Windt, 2015), mind (Rosen, 2018) or sense of agency (Rosen, 2015) and whether dream reports are reliable (Schwitzgebel et al ., 2006; Windt, 2013). However, their implications for our ethical lives have received scant attention.…”

Sense of agency: Theory, methods, and application.

“…In the final section of the special issue, contributors explore real-world applications of sense of agency research, including a developmental account of how the capacity for agency emerges during childhood (Deans, McIlwain, & Geeves, 2015, pp. 315–325), an exploration of agency alteration in dreams (Rosen, 2015, pp. 326–339), and a case study of sense of agency in expert skilled behavior (Christensen, Bicknell, McIlwain, & Sutton, 2015, pp.…”