Frequency of indoor and outdoor settings in dreams: use of memory elements in dreaming processes.
In two samples of 22 dreams, one sample produced by 18 subjects and the other by a single subject, we found an equal proportion of indoor and outdoor settings. The analysis of 13 consecutive dreams of two subjects also showed some shift from indoor to outdoor settings. Dreaming processes apparently produce constant variations of representations and operate a selection of episodic memory elements via the general categories of semantic memory.
Universite de Geneve, Faculte de Psychologie, et des Sciences de l'education, Carouge, Switzerland.
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D000328:Adult; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics