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| ISBN: | 9780674037168
0674037162
0674009711
9780674009714
0674116208
9780674116207
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Foulkes, David, 1935- Children's dreaming and the development of consciousness. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 0674116208 9780674116207
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