The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

9. Dreams

  1. The Interpretation of Dreams
  2. The Interpretation of Dreaming
  3. Sleep
  4. Dreams Are Made Of This
  5. The Genetic Meaning Of Dreams
  6. The Adaptive Value Of Dreams
  7. We Dream to Remember and to Forget
  8. Dreams as a Chemical System
  9. The Origin of Dreaming
  10. An Evolutionary Accident
  11. Of How Real Dreams Are and How Dreamy Reality Is
  12. Dreams are Energetic
  13. NREM Sleep
  14. Selectionism
  15. The Collective Memory of Myths
  16. A Neuroscience of Myths
  17. A History of Concepts
  18. Child's Play
  19. Joking

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Blechner, Mark: THE DREAM FRONTIER (Analytic Press, 2001)

Calvin, William: THE CEREBRAL CODE (MIT Press, 1996)

Campbell, Joseph: THE MASKS OF GODS (Viking, 1959)

Flanagan, Owen: DREAMING SOULS (Oxford Univ Press, 1999)

Hobson, Allan: THE DREAMING BRAIN (Basic, 1989)

Hobson, Allan: THE CHEMISTRY OF CONSCIOUS STATES (Little & Brown, 1994)

Jouvet, Michel: LE SOMMEIL ET LE REVE/ THE PARADOX OF SLEEP (Jacob, 1992)

Jung, Carl: THE ARCHETYPES OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS (1936)

Marcos, Frank: THE MYSTERY OF SLEEP FUNCTION (2006)

McNamara, Patrick: MIND AND VARIABILITY: MENTAL DARWINISM, MEMORY, AND SELF (Praeger, 1999)

Pace-Schott, Edward: SLEEP AND DREAMING: SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES AND RECONSIDERATIONS (Cambridge Univ Press, 2003)

Snyder, Frederick: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF DREAMING (Random House, 1967)

Solms, Mark: THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF DREAMS (Erlbaum, 1997)

Winson, Jonathan: BRAIN AND PSYCHE (Anchor Press, 1985)