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Your Nightly Dreams
G. William Domhoff, research professor of psychology and sociology at UC Santa Cruz, is a leading expert on dreams. Fascinated by dreams for nearly 50 years, Domhoff highlights his work with DreamB...
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but it goes on to cover an almost complete field of empirical research, showing thoroughly how conclusions are drawn and how they relate to different approaches of present research.
I think, it is a fine introduction to the topic of dream experiences.
The only issue, I sense would be the introspective character of dream journals or interviews, which might obscure experience by interpretation.
Do we recall dreams as we recall sensations ?
The "content analysis" by Calvin Hall seems to provide a statistical ckeck, that dream content is not simply made up by individuals - but how much does it reflect mere waking life concepts, than actual experiences?
Rather than to seek to 'dream about the revelation of an assumed methaphoric nature of dreams' - I would suggest to observe more the waking conscience of oneself - like keeping a diary or trying to question basic concepts.