Gutenberg Open Science: Reporting dream experience : why (not) to be skeptical about dream reports

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dc.contributor.author	Windt, Jennifer M.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-21T07:06:24Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-10-21T07:06:24Z	-
dc.date.issued	2013	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8148	-
dc.description.abstract	Are dreams subjective experiences during sleep? Is it like something to dream, or is it only like something to remember dreams after awakening? Specifically, can dream reports be trusted to reveal what it is like to dream, and should they count as evidence for saying that dreams are conscious experiences at all? The goal of this article is to investigate the relationship between dreaming, dream reporting and subjective experience during sleep. I discuss different variants of philosophical skepticism about dream reporting and argue that they all fail. Consequently, skeptical doubts about the trustworthiness of dream reports are misguided, and for systematic reasons. I suggest an alternative, anti-skeptical account of the trustworthiness of dream reports. On this view, dream reports, when gathered under ideal reporting conditions and according to the principle of temporal proximity, are trustworthy (or transparent) with respect to conscious experience during sleep. The transparency assumption has the status of a methodologically necessary default assumption and is theoretically justified because it provides the best explanation of dream reporting. At the same time, it inherits important insights from the discussed variants of skepticism about dream reporting, suggesting that the careful consideration of these skeptical arguments ultimately leads to a positive account of why and under which conditions dream reports can and should be trusted. In this way, moderate distrust can be fruitfully combined with anti-skepticism about dream reporting. Several perspectives for future dream research and for the comparative study of dreaming and waking experience are suggested.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	100 Philosophie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	100 Philosophy	en_GB
dc.title	Reporting dream experience : why (not) to be skeptical about dream reports	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8133	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7920	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Frontiers in human neuroscience	de
jgu.journal.volume	7	de
jgu.pages.start	1	de
jgu.pages.end	15	de
jgu.publisher.year	2013	-
jgu.publisher.name	Frontiers Research Foundation	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lausanne	de
jgu.publisher.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00708	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1662-5161	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	100	de
opus.date.modified	2018-08-02T09:46:25Z	-
opus.subject.dfgcode	00-000	-
opus.organisation.string	FB 05: Philosophie und Philologie: Philosophisches Seminar	de_DE
opus.identifier.opusid	24624	-
opus.institute.number	0508	-
opus.metadataonly	false	-
opus.type.contenttype	Elektronische Ressource	de_DE
opus.type.contenttype	Electronic Resource	en_EN
opus.affiliated	Windt, Jennifer M.	-
jgu.publisher.doi	10.3389/fnhum.2013.00708	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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