[FRIAM] IS: Research on Dreams WAS: hidden

[Frank Wimberly]

Memories and the accounts thereof are considered valid dream material and
it is well known that they have an imperfect relationship to the dream.  It
doesn't matter.  Even if a person makes up.a dream; it is grist for the
mill.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Tue, May 19, 2020, 2:29 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is very close to what I was going to propose, except I intended to
> say something snarky like: We *already* do nomothetic studies of dreams.
> The results of which are gathered and used in sleep labs all over the
> country.
>
> But it sounds like y'all are talking about doing a nomothetic study of
> what people *say*, not what they dream. When someone talks about the
> content of their dreams, can you trust them to tell the truth? ... to know
> the truth? I'd argue, no. They're making up a *story* about what they just
> experienced.
>
> The same is true about, say, self-reporting alcohol consumption ... or
> whether or not you'd help a person in an argument with an abusive spouse.
> Narrative is untrustworthy.
>
> On 5/19/20 1:20 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I settled on soliciting from my colleagues around the country as
> variable a set of song samples and then published on what was true of all
> of them.  The extremes of that sample also gave us grounds to say what a
> mockingbird “could” do.  I suppose this was “nomothetic” research, but it
> also had an idiographic taint.
> >
> > Could this sort approach be used with dreaming?
>
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