The illusory function of dreams: Another example of cognitive bias

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (6):971-972 (2000)
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Abstract

Patterns of dream content indicating a predominance of themes relating to threat are likely to reflect biases in dream recall and dream scoring techniques. Even if this pattern is not artifactual, it is yet reflective of threat-related biases in our conscious and nonconscious waking cognition, and is not special to dreams. [Revonsuo].

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