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Waking fantasy

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Spontaneous waking mental activity involving an imagined story or perceptual experience, without a clear link to external stimuli or deliberate intention.

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(1992) investigated whether dreams were more bizarre than waking fantasies, and whether this supported the activation-synthesis hypothesis.
Revise: Williams et al. (1992): Bizarreness in Dreams and Fantasies

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OCR GCSE Psychology · J203

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