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... But, as "the defining feature of many dreams" (Hunt et al, 1993, 198) bizarreness continues to be the chief descriptive element in our characterization of dream images and events. ... Following the appearance of Owen Flanagans Dreaming Souls (2000), I have had further thoughts on the subject which I offer here partly in the hope of arousing interest in certain complexities of the problem and partly by way of drawing some clearer continuities between dreams and other modes of thought. ... The phenomenologist looks directly at the experience (or tries to), the neuroscientist looks at the machinery beneath it, and I take it as a given that without both points of view our understanding would be incomplete. ... It is clear that dreams offer impossible conflations of things, people, places, events, and so on, and that some dreams are more bizarre in this regard than others. It is also true that people morph into other people in dreams far more frequently than they morph into animals or objects. ... It is probably impossible to sort it out cleanly, given our limited access to what we actually see in the minds eye--but I think some outside groundwork can be done along these lines, on the assumption that the brain that dreams is (more or less) the same brain that thinks.
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