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DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS GEBUNDEN

This book presents three lectures by Allan Hobson  entitled The William James Lectures on Dream
Consciousness. The three lectures expose the new psychology  the new physiology and the new
philosophy that derive from and support the protoconsciousness hypothesis of dreaming. They
review in detail many of the studies on sleep and dreaming conducted since the days of Sigmund
Freud. Following the lectures are commentaries written by scholars whose expertise covers a
wide range of scientific disciplines including  but not limited to  philosophy  psychology 
neurology  neuropsychology  cognitive science  biology and animal sciences. The commentaries
each answer a specific question in relation to Hobson's lectures and his premise that dreaming
is an altered state of consciousness. Capitalizing on a vast amount of data  the lectures and
commentaries provide undisputed evidence that sleep consists of a well-organized sequence of
subtly orchestrated brain states that undoubtedly play a crucial function in the maintenance of
normal brain functions. These functions include both basic homeostatic processes necessary to
keep the organism alive as well as the highest cognitive functions including perception 
decision making  learning and consciousness.

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