• Conscious Cogn · Jun 2007

    Bizarreness of size and shape in dream images.

    • P C Cicogna, M Occhionero, V Natale, and M J Esposito.
    • Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, Bologna, Italy. pieracarla.cicogna@unibo.it
    • Conscious Cogn. 2007 Jun 1; 16 (2): 381-90.

    AbstractBizarreness 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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