This article explains the origins and development of the continuity hypothesis in work by cognitively oriented dream researchers. Using blind quantitative analyses of lengthy dream series from several individuals, in conjunction with inferences presented to the individual dreamers to corroborate or reject, these researchers discovered that the same conceptions and personal concerns that animate waking thought are very often enacted in dreams. Other types of studies later supported this finding. The article argues that the cognitive origins and definition of the continuity hypothesis have been distorted by those dream researchers who mistakenly claim that the concept is focused on dreaming as an incorporation of everyday experiences. A review of the literature on experiential and experimental influences on dreams, which includes studies of day residues, the experimental manipulation of presleep events, the incorporation of during-sleep stimuli, laboratory references in laboratory-collected dreams, and the influence of routine daily events, reveals that none of them is very influential and most are trivial. The article concludes that those who study experiential factors should adopt a phrase such as “incorporation hypothesis” to avoid confusion in the literature and make clear that the continuity hypothesis is a central one in an emerging neurocognitive theory of dreams. The intensity of personal concerns and interests, not the events of the day, shape central aspects of dream content. In particular, the frequency of characters or activities reveals the intensity of various concerns, and these concerns can be discovered for individuals through comparisons with normative findings.

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概念抢夺者的入侵：连续性假设的起源、扭曲和未来。

本文解释了以认知为导向的梦研究人员工作中连续性假设的起源和发展。通过对来自几个人的冗长梦境的盲目定量分析，结合呈现给个体做梦者以证实或拒绝的推论，这些研究人员发现，在梦中经常出现与清醒时的想法相同的概念和个人关注。后来其他类型的研究支持了这一发现。这篇文章认为，连续性假设的认知起源和定义被那些梦境研究人员歪曲了，他们错误地声称该概念专注于将做梦作为日常经验的结合。对经验和实验对梦的影响的文献综述，包括对日残的研究、对睡前事件的实验操作、睡眠期间刺激的结合、实验室收集梦境中的实验室参考以及日常日常事件的影响，表明它们都没有很大影响，而且大多数都是微不足道的. 文章的结论是，那些研究经验因素的人应该采用诸如“合并假设”这样的短语，以避免在文献中混淆，并明确连续性假设是新兴的梦的神经认知理论的核心。个人关注和兴趣的强度，而不是当天的事件，塑造了梦想内容的核心方面。尤其是人物或活动的频度揭示了各种关注的强度，