http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:00:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388066 D Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:11:40 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388066 I suspect dreams <i>do</i> tell us things about ourselves, things we don't want to know. The self-deception module is "turned-off" when we're sleeping... I suspect dreams do tell us things about ourselves, things we don’t want to know. The self-deception module is “turned-off” when we’re sleeping…

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388065 yters Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:50:39 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388065 I concur. My interpretations of my dreams do not tend to be socially convenient. For instance, I suspect some of my dreams are supernatural in origin, but as you can see, this makes me sound loopy. I concur. My interpretations of my dreams do not tend to be socially convenient. For instance, I suspect some of my dreams are supernatural in origin, but as you can see, this makes me sound loopy.

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388064 Bleys Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:39 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388064 Robin, what is your take on the Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming? See: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.revonsuo.html http://www.sleepandhypnosis.org/article.asp?id=200 http://books.google.com/books?id=xHwHdBazX5wC&pg=PA216&dq=dreams+threat+simulation Robin, what is your take on the Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming? See:
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.revonsuo.html
http://www.sleepandhypnosis.org/article.asp?id=200
http://books.google.com/books?id=xHwHdBazX5wC&pg=PA216&dq=dreams+threat+simulation

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388063 mitchell porter Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:51:29 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/01/dreams-as-evidence.html#comment-388063 I think you distort the picture by emphasizing that the personal interpretation of dreams can have socially convenient consequences. I "bet" that this explains only a very small part of how fictional experiences are interpreted, and (as several of us said in the discussion of fiction) that interpretive tendencies are far more solipsistic in origin. They are expressive of and a response to the situation of being a finite mind in an unknown reality, not just of being one person in a society of mutually interested persons. I think you distort the picture by emphasizing that the personal interpretation of dreams can have socially convenient consequences. I “bet” that this explains only a very small part of how fictional experiences are interpreted, and (as several of us said in the discussion of fiction) that interpretive tendencies are far more solipsistic in origin. They are expressive of and a response to the situation of being a finite mind in an unknown reality, not just of being one person in a society of mutually interested persons.

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