Dreams and Dreaming
Jennifer M. Windt · 2024 · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This source is used as context evidence across 3 linked claims and 7 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Philosophical and scientific survey of dreaming, including dream reports, lucid dreams, dream skepticism, and debates over whether dreams are experiences or later confabulations.
How this source is used on the map
Reference for any claim involving the cognitive nature of dreams, especially claims that dreams are spiritually revelatory or anomalously predictive.
Citation record
- Authors
- Jennifer M. Windt
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Source type
- Philosophy reference
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
Dreams reflect waking concerns. Universal dream-symbol dictionaries are mostly cultural; personal associations can carry meaning.
Given how many dreams we have, occasional 'matches' are statistically inevitable and powerfully memorable.
Lucid dreaming is established. Tibetan Dream Yoga and Western traditions claim it accesses something more.
Related evidence hubs
Practice claims — prayer, reiki, chakras, astrology, tarot, manifestation.
Astrology, tarot, numerology, dream interpretation.
The nature of subjective experience.
Lab-tested claims of telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, and PK.
Telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, PK.
Psychedelic, contemplative, and out-of-body experiences and what they may reveal.
Psychedelic, contemplative, out-of-body experience.
Related research reports
A source-linked synthesis of mystical experience, meditation, psychedelics, DMT entities, out-of-body experiences, lucid dreams, and synchronicity.
A balanced synthesis of telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, presentiment, psychokinesis, and skeptical methodological objections.
Related sources
Pair with the SEP 'Dreams and Dreaming' entry already in the dataset for the philosophical / scientific framing.
Useful general-audience anchor for psi-related claims; gives both the field's self-description and the standard sceptical critique.
Useful entry point for the well-established phenomenon; spiritual interpretations are a separate further question.
The most-cited modern meta-analysis on presentiment; central to debate about whether physiology can show anticipatory responses to future stimuli.
The most-discussed modern empirical paper claiming evidence for precognition; directly triggered the Wagenmakers et al. critique and helped catalyse psychology's broader replication-crisis conversation.
Foundational sceptical reply — also helped trigger the broader replication-crisis conversation in psychology.