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.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, May 19, 2020, 2:29 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] 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? > > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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