Introduction: Dreaming Cultural Models

Abstract

Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. More often than not, emerging from a warm, sleepy drowse, we see them as ephemeral traces just at the horizon of our inner eye, which may vanish inward at the ringing of a clock or a phone that recalls us to normal wakefulness. Yet as subjective and fleeting as they appear, dreams have a vital public aspect: they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models.