Marcel Kuijsten - Julian Jaynes and the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Self Portraits As Other People
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Dreams and the Development of Consciousness
Julian James wrote a chapter on dreams but it wasn't included in his original book due to length considerations and then his second book that was planned never emerged. So I started looking at his course syllabus he taught a course a popular course on consciousness at Princeton University for decades, looked at his assignments and began to piece together what his ideas were on dreams. It turned out my ideas about the direction he was going were confirmed so we have modern dreams which are consciousness operating during sleep. We see ourselves in other places carrying out activities vicarially and the mind is taking all of these things and forming a narrative.
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