Bizarreness of size and shape in dream images
Abstract
Bizarreness in dreams is defined as an unusual combination of features in the phenomenal unified consciousness, that is, an incoherent simulation of the waking world. The present study investigated the specific mechanisms underlying dream image production and the phenomenal unity of consciousness by focusing on size and shape bizarreness. Data were derived from a Dream Data Bank of experimental dream studies. Analyses revealed that feature distortion was quite infrequent. Results are discussed in terms of cognitive processes proposed in a dream production model. Theoretical cognitive constructs, such as Kosslyn's imagery model, memory systems functioning, and binding, were used to speculate about these two specific types of bizarreness.
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Dream bizarreness has been linked to cognitive processes and skills, not only in developmental but also in adult studies.
“For what concern the qualitative features of dream reports, dream bizarreness has been linked to cognitive processes and skills, not only in developmental but also in adult studies.92,109”
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Background
- Authors
- Cicogna, P. C., Occhionero, M., Natale, V., & Esposito, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Cicogna, P.C.
- Venue
- Consciousness and Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 381-390
- ISSN
- 1053-8100 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2083328250
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Consciousness and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- dream imagery, bizarreness, feature distortion, binding, memory systems
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Cognition, Consciousness, Dreams, Form Perception, Humans, Imagination, Memory, Models, Psychological, Perceptual Distortion, Size Perception, Polysomnography
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