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The Logical Structure Of Dreams And Their Relation To Reality, Jeremy Barris
The Logical Structure Of Dreams And Their Relation To Reality, Jeremy Barris
Humanities Faculty Research
The contradictions and non sequiturs often found in dreams (or, equivalently, dream-narratives) are not in fact logical errors, but express and work with a type of logic that characterizes the deepest dimensions of our waking reality. These are the dimensions in which we deal with ourselves as a whole, our lives as a whole, or with the sense of reality as a whole. We do so, for example, in situations of deep personal transformation, or of recognition of deep difference of outlook. The paper argues that the logic of these situations is validly one of contradiction and non sequitur, that …