Dreams and Dreaming
Jennifer M. Windt · 2024 · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Summary
Philosophical and scientific survey of dreaming, including dream reports, lucid dreams, dream skepticism, and debates over whether dreams are experiences or later confabulations.
Why it matters here
Reference for any claim involving the cognitive nature of dreams, especially claims that dreams are spiritually revelatory or anomalously predictive.
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.