2019
Journal article  Open Access

A Hypothesis about parallelism vs. seriality in dreams

Barcaro U., Paradisi P., Sebastiani L.

parallelism vs. seriality in physiological systems  parallelism vs. seriality 3 in physiological systems  complexity  self-organization  Opinion  dream sources  Dream sources  Psychology  Network properties of dream sources  Parallelism vs. seriality in physiological systems  dream experience  network properties of dream sources  dream building  General Psychology  Dream experience 

The process of dream building implies the construction of a complex network of closely interrelated sources. On the other hand, the dream experience develops as a succession of events. In this paper a hypothesis is advanced about how the psycho-physiological system of dream building, which is distributed, acts to provide a serial output. This hypothesis is basically connected with the property, enjoyed by the dream experience, of simultaneously representing a plurality of meanings.

Source: Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): 2299-1–2299-4. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02299

Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation, Switzerland


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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:418374,
	title = {A Hypothesis about parallelism vs. seriality in dreams},
	author = {Barcaro U. and Paradisi P. and Sebastiani L.},
	publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation, Switzerland},
	doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02299},
	journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
	volume = {10},
	pages = {2299},
	year = {2019}
}