Jennifer Windt wrote a book entitled Dreaming in which she makes a case that reasoning is not absent in the dream state and it falls into categories. While rational thought sometimes occurs in dreams, it may not be recognizable to the wakened mind if we do not know the categories that apply.
She categorizes this kind of dream-thinking into, “. . .the logical geography of concepts predominately used to describe standard, altered, and pathological wake states, such as ‘experience,’ ‘perception,’ ‘imagination,’ ‘belief,’ ‘delusion,’ and ‘self-consciousness.’ These ways of thinking are part of our waking reality and they are also present in our dreams.
This brings up a lot of questions about what is consciousness if our dream state shares the same kind of ideation as our wide awake life.
She categorizes this kind of dream-thinking into, “. . .the logical geography of concepts predominately used to describe standard, altered, and pathological wake states, such as ‘experience,’ ‘perception,’ ‘imagination,’ ‘belief,’ ‘delusion,’ and ‘self-consciousness.’ These ways of thinking are part of our waking reality and they are also present in our dreams.
This brings up a lot of questions about what is consciousness if our dream state shares the same kind of ideation as our wide awake life.
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