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- Title
Dream Work: The Inner World of Die Meistersinger.
- Authors
Bortnichak, Paula M.; Bortnichak, Edward A.
- Abstract
As lucid dreaming is a variety of dreaming that will be especially important in our analysis of Meistersinger, we provide a primer for this special subcategory of dreams as compared to, and in context with, the accumulated scientific knowledge about dreaming 10 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, tr. and ed. 4 Dream Work: The Inner World of Die Meistersinger Paula M. Bortnichak and Edward A. Bortnichak 'for through the artwork we will become […] conscious of the unconscious' (Richard Wagner) Introduction The Romantic era was marked by an obsession with the blurred border between the real and the imagined; waking and dreaming. 15 Collating all the evidence from a variety of clinical, epidemiological and subjective/anecdotal report sources, the chief characteristics of a lucid dream (as opposed to non-lucid dreaming) can be summarised as follows: 16 14 Ibid., 157-9. 15 Ibid., 143, 147-50. 16 This section constitutes a synthesis by the authors of the sleep literature, including material presented throughout La Berge and Rheingold, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (note 7) and Ullman and Zimmerman, Working with Dreams (note 1), and is especially reliant on Thompson, Waking, Dreaming, Being (note 13), esp. 31 Given the immediate proximity of his labelling his dream to be a "waking dream" and this identification of the dream image as a "laurel tree", it is highly likely that the moment of awareness occurs as Walther realises the detail that the dream image of a tree does not match his recollection of any of the species of trees in the environment where he and Eva sheltered during the riot.
- Subjects
LAUGHTER; RAPID eye movement sleep; SCIENTIFIC knowledge
- Publication
Wagner Journal, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
1755-0173
- Publication type
Article