The basic idea behind Dennett's cassette theory goes back to a famous dream reported by Maury (1861), in which a long and complex dream about the French revolution culminated in his execution on the guillotine.
Indeed, in today's complex world, it may be a pipe dream to think that banks can be simplified and just made smaller.
It takes only one scalding under a strange shower, or a few minutes trying to puzzle out the snooze functions ("dream time"?) on a complex alarm clock, to stir a longing for one's real home.
Like having a complex cinematic dream that dissipates upon awakening".
Yet as she reconnects with the few friends who remain and listens to their part-wistful, part-bitter reminiscences of a time filled with handsome martyrs and endless possibilities, a portrait emerges that's less of a paradise lost than of a complex, unsustainable dream.
In a landmark 2001 study, Matthew A. Wilson, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences in MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory, showed that animals have complex dreams and are able to retain and recall long sequences of events while they are asleep.
Eun-Hee Eun-Hee Kimn Enlightenment Theater Company took on a complex subject in "Dreams of a Picture Bride," a new dance and theater work performed on Saturday night at the Theater for the New City.
Still, this book confronts us with Freud's virtuosity as a cannibalizing theoretician, his savage efficacy as a tactician — and his irreducible brilliance as a bestower of names: Oedipus complex, dream-work.
Animals have complex dreams, researchers find a substance that stops weight gain, and more.
His small dreams became larger and led to the artistic representations of his rich, complex dreams.
In some cases it is difficult to distinguish the autoscopic experiences from a dreamy-state in which the self is seen in more complex, dream-like or memory-like scenes without actually seeing the image of one's face or body [ 53].
