Dreaming, Self-Continuity, and Re-Coupling to Reality: A Phenomenological Hypothesis on Sleep, Early Consciousness Development, and Subjective Experience
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| author | Schnellmann, Sabrina |
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| contents | <p>This paper develops the hypothesis that the self does not disappear during sleep, but instead transitions into a different mode of organization. Dreams are interpreted not primarily as symbolic imagery or neural noise, but as internally stabilized forms of subjective experience.</p> <p>The paper argues that the transition between sleeping and waking is less a shift between “consciousness off” and “consciousness on,” and more a re-coupling between internally generated and externally stabilized reality.</p> <p>Drawing from phenomenology, dream structure, and theories of minimal selfhood, the work explores parallels between dream states, early pre-linguistic development, and boundary states of consciousness such as coma and minimally conscious states.</p> <p>The central question becomes: What must remain preserved for subjective experience to continue — and what must occur for experience to reconnect itself to shared reality?</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Dreaming, Self-Continuity, and Re-Coupling to Reality: A Phenomenological Hypothesis on Sleep, Early Consciousness Development, and Subjective Experience Schnellmann, Sabrina consciousness dreaming phenomenology selfhood minimal self philosophy of mind dream research subjective experience consciousness studies cognitive science <p>This paper develops the hypothesis that the self does not disappear during sleep, but instead transitions into a different mode of organization. Dreams are interpreted not primarily as symbolic imagery or neural noise, but as internally stabilized forms of subjective experience.</p> <p>The paper argues that the transition between sleeping and waking is less a shift between “consciousness off” and “consciousness on,” and more a re-coupling between internally generated and externally stabilized reality.</p> <p>Drawing from phenomenology, dream structure, and theories of minimal selfhood, the work explores parallels between dream states, early pre-linguistic development, and boundary states of consciousness such as coma and minimally conscious states.</p> <p>The central question becomes: What must remain preserved for subjective experience to continue — and what must occur for experience to reconnect itself to shared reality?</p> |
| title | Dreaming, Self-Continuity, and Re-Coupling to Reality: A Phenomenological Hypothesis on Sleep, Early Consciousness Development, and Subjective Experience |
| topic | consciousness dreaming phenomenology selfhood minimal self philosophy of mind dream research subjective experience consciousness studies cognitive science |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20111216 |