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The neurocognitive theory of dreams at age 20: An assessment and a comparison with four other theories of dreaming.
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The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
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“Indeed, it has been shown that non-REM sleep dream reports from late in the sleep period can be difficult to distinguish from REM sleep dream reports (Domhoff, 2017, 2019; Nir & Tonini, 2010; Siclari et al., 2018).”
BackgroundConstructive episodic simulation in dreams
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“Domhoff’s description of dreaming as “embodied simulation” differs, in that it does not presume that dreams simulate only particular, restricted categories of waking life experience, and does not assert that dream simulations function to prepare us for the future [67, 68].”
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“Here, dreams are characterized as minimally constrained, immersive, and hyperassociative spontaneous experiences (Christoff et al., 2016) that can be understood as an intensified version of mind wandering (Domhoff, 2019b; Fox et al., 2013).”
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“The cognitive version of the CH (e.g., Domhoff, 2017, 2019), on the other hand, has an essential value because it points out that dreams are the simulation of the waking world, which means there is a continuous conception and concerns between waking and dreaming.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Domhoff, G. W.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Domhoff, G. William
- ORCID
- Domhoff, G. William
- Venue
- Dreaming
- Published
- 2019-12
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 265-302
- ISSN
- 1053-0797 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3351
- OpenAlex
- W2994999586
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Dreaming (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- dream function
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