Authorship in dreams and fictions.

States, Bert O.

In an extension of the article in which R. Llinás and D. Paré (1991) describe wakefulness as a dreamlike state modulated by sensory inputs, B. O. States proposes that storytelling springs from the same skill that allows one to dream, that waking storytelling is modulated by different constraints on the imagination, and that while creating the story the storyteller is really dreaming under different circumstances. The intrinsic capacity to invent stories and images and the extrinsic structures (e.g., scripts) borrowed from the waking world to make dream narratives are described. States suggests that the creative process, in both dreams and waking fiction, is a form of remembering or a remembrance of things learned and stored in associational memory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Associative Processes; Dreaming; Retention; Storytelling

Dreaming, 1994, Vol 4, Issue 4, p237

1053-0797

Journal

10.1037/h0094417