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Ontological significance of the dream world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2013

Gordon Globus
Gordon Globus*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697. ggglobus@uci.edu
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Abstract

Sometimes while sleeping we find ourselves thrown amidst an authentic, albeit bizarre, world. The process of integration by means of which memory elements might be fabricated into a seamless world indistinguishable from the world of waking life is not explained by Llewellyn, who focuses instead on the elaborative encoding of memories. Ontological implications of the sometimes indiscernibility of wake and dream worlds are considered.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 619 - 620
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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