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Papers about aphantasia and mental imagery, with summaries in plain words. The summaries are generated by AI and may contain errors.
Gregory · Philosophical Studies
The paper argues that two features of dreams are better explained if dreaming is a kind of imagining than if it is hallucination plus belief. Things can be true in a dream without being shown, as when a dreamer on a beach simply is an accountant, and dreams can skip across long stretches of time the way films do. Both match how people settle what their waking imaginings stand for. The paper calls its arguments supportive but not conclusive and does not claim that dreams never involve hallucinations or beliefs.
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