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Dreaming as play

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Nicholas Humphrey
Affiliation:
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom n.humphrey@lse.ac.uk
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Dreaming can provide a marvelous opportunity for the “playful” exploration of dramatic events. But the chance to learn to deal with danger is only a small part of it. More important is the chance to discover what it is like to be the subject of strange but humanly significant mental states.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press