eprintid: 14129
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 192
dir: disk0/00/01/41/29
datestamp: 2012-11-27 11:42:22
lastmod: 2022-07-18 01:29:08
status_changed: 2012-11-27 14:03:23
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Kozmova, Miloslava
title: Dreamers as agents making strategizing efforts exemplify core aggregate of executive function in non-lucid dreaming
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-300
divisions: i-851200
keywords: Executive function in non-lucid dreaming, Higher-order cognition in dreaming, Dreaming consciousness, Agency dreams, Core aggregate of executive funct
abstract: The study of higher-order cognition in dreaming was guided by the question “What are the scope and purpose of thinking/strategizing efforts as one of three previously identified direct mental problem-solving modalities (Kozmová, 2008; 2012) that some dreamers are capable of using to resolve the novelties of felt-need situations encountered during non-lucid dreaming?” The research utilized previously articulated thought processes of a multilayered nocturnal problem-solving phenomenon that emerged from analysis of archived cross-cultural dreams (Kozmová, 2008). The results, in the form of taxonomy of delimited higher-order thought executive processes analyzed by the method of grounded theory, describe core aggregate of executive function that consists of eight types of executive thought processes: (a) analytical, (b) decision-making, (c) defense mechanisms, (d) evaluative, (e) goal-oriented/goal-directed, (f) interpretative, (g) motivational, and (h) self-determinative. The subsequent substantive grounded theory proposes four purposes for dreamers’ demonstration of strategizing efforts within the scope of higher-order cognitive skills: (a) information gathering; (b) judgment; (c) protection and maximizing chances for success; and (d) exercising volition, agency, and autonomy. The future application of core aggregate of executive function in non-lucid dreaming includes research of neural correlates that could support this function during sleep.
date: 2012
date_type: published
id_scheme: ojs
official_url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/9159
ppn_swb: 1446080633
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-141299
language: eng
bibsort: KOZMOVAMILDREAMERSAS2012
full_text_status: none
publication: International Journal of Dream Research
volume: 5
number: 1
pagerange: 47-67
citation:   Kozmova, Miloslava  (2012) Dreamers as agents making strategizing efforts exemplify core aggregate of executive function in non-lucid dreaming.  International Journal of Dream Research, 5 (1).  pp. 47-67.