"Perhaps the consciousness of dreaming is the almost random formation of little groups forming in different configurations like pebbles thrown very gently into the water. One can imagine the gentle ripples easily being displaced by the next pebble as it hits the water."
— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
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Place of Publication
London and New York
Publisher
Routledge
Date
1999
Metaphor
"Perhaps the consciousness of dreaming is the almost random formation of little groups forming in different configurations like pebbles thrown very gently into the water. One can imagine the gentle ripples easily being displaced by the next pebble as it hits the water."
Metaphor in Context
[...] Perhaps the consciousness of dreaming is the almost random formation of little groups forming in different configurations like pebbles thrown very gently into the water. One can imagine the gentle ripples easily being displaced by the next pebble as it hits the water. I would like to suggest that the dreaming consciousness is not qualitatively different from ordinary consciousness--rather it is just an extreme example of one that quantitatively can be placed at the far end of the spectrum. [...]
(p. 119)
(p. 119)
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Citation
Susan Greenfield, “Soul, Brain, and Mind†in From Soul to Self, ed. M. James Crabbe (Routledge: London and New York, 1999), 108-125.
Date of Entry
02/22/2012
