Kahn David, Hobson J Allan
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Conscious Cogn. 2005 Sep;14(3):429-38. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2004.10.005. Epub 2004 Dec 15.
Thinking is known to be state dependent but a systematic study of how thinking in dreams differs from thinking while awake has not been done. The study consisted of analyzing the dream reports of 26 subjects who, in addition to providing dream reports also provided answers to questions about their thinking within the dream. Our hypothesis was that thinking in dreams is not monolithic but has two distinct components, one that is similar to wake-state cognition, and another that is fundamentally different. We found that cognition within a dream scenario was similar to that of wake-state cognition, but that thinking about the scenario itself was deficient and very different than wake-state thinking.
已知思维具有状态依赖性，但尚未对梦境中的思维与清醒时的思维有何不同进行系统研究。该研究包括分析26名受试者的梦境报告，这些受试者除了提供梦境报告外，还回答了关于他们在梦中思维的问题。我们的假设是，梦中的思维并非单一的，而是有两个不同的组成部分，一个与清醒状态下的认知相似，另一个则有根本差异。我们发现，梦境场景中的认知与清醒状态下的认知相似，但对场景本身的思考存在缺陷，且与清醒状态下的思维非常不同。
