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Author Foulkes, David, 1935-

Title Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness / David Foulkes.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.
Contents 1. Challenging the Assumptions -- 2. How to Study Children's Dreams -- 3. The Two Studies -- 4. Ages Three to Five -- 5. Ages Five to Nine -- 6. Ages Nine to Fifteen -- 7. Dreaming -- 8. Consciousness -- App. Two Children's Dream Reports over Time.
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Summary David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of the use of sleep labs research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it - active stories in which the dreamer is an actor - appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. Although younger children do report dreams (often at the prompting of their eager parents), careful empirical study suggests that what the child calls dreams are almost certainly waking fantasies and confabulations. Laboratory studies show that preschoolers' REM sleep dreams usually consist of isolated static images - often of animals. Foulkes argues that the late development of narrative dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Children's dreams.
Children's dreams.
Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Dreams.
Adolescent.
Child Development.
Child.
Consciousness.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Foulkes, David, 1935- Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 0674116208 9780674116207 (DLC) 98026307 (OCoLC)39354219
ISBN 9780674037168 (electronic book)
0674037162 (electronic book)
0674116208 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780674009714
9780674116207 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)