Pagel J F, Vann B H
Garden Island Medical Group, Waimea, Kauai.
Hawaii Med J. 1993 Feb;52(2):44-6.
Cultural variations in the narrative content of dreams have been reported in many studies. This basic cultural difference in dream language and representations has been used to support psychoanalytic theories of dreaming, especially that of the Jungian-based schools. Others have postulated that such variations reflect the cultural differences that each individual experiences during waking life. This "continuity" hypothesis proposes that a high correlation exists between an individual's waking life and his or her dream content. The biologic framework of dreams, sleep/dream-state physiology, is cross-culturally consistent, and the incidence of dream related pathology also is remarkedly similar between differing cultures.
许多研究报告了梦境叙事内容中的文化差异。梦境语言和表现形式的这种基本文化差异已被用来支持梦的精神分析理论，尤其是基于荣格学派的理论。其他人则推测，这种差异反映了每个人在清醒生活中所经历的文化差异。这种“连续性”假说提出，一个人的清醒生活与其梦境内容之间存在高度相关性。梦的生物学框架，即睡眠/梦状态生理学，在跨文化中是一致的，不同文化之间与梦相关的病理学发生率也明显相似。
