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We are living in a time of accelerating information flows calling for our attention. Every day our brains must accommodate masses of information and deal with the attendant frustration. Do our lives have to become more fragmented or can we find a way to integrate them? Ullman stated that, in principle, there are two ways of knowing the world and our relationship with it: the first is the way of scientific knowledge and the second is the way discerned in our dreams. He also regarded dreaming as an adaptation concerned primarily with the survival of the species and only secondarily with the individual.
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Omstedt, A. (2016). Science and Dreams. In: Connecting Analytical Thinking and Intuition. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27534-5_12
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