Dream to Remember
This chapter explores how the process of creating a complex, visuospatial, associative image of a pattern in experience is mnemonic, i.e. it aids remembering. Clearly, unless we retained a dream memory image it couldn’t improve our chances of survival in wake. I compare associative dream images to the associative images people use in wake to help them remember. These associative images all derive from the Ancient Art of Memory, incorporating the Method of Loci. I argue the Method of Loci works as a memory technique because it mimics the daily tour in the home range. Equally, the associative images from the Ancient Art of Memory echo the dream images retained at landmark junctions in memory networks.
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2021 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 130-153
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