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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:58:45 EDT
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Here's a question a friend posed a few years ago:

	Does a dream exist only in the recollection of it?  That
	is, does the mental event we call a dream actually unfold
	like a story with beginning, end & duration, or is it
	a more abstract mental occurrence that receives a mean-
	ingful form (becomes a "dream") only when we "remember"
	it (think about it when awake)?

Is there strong evidence for dreams being the events they seem?
If so, can such evidence be reinterpreted to support the "non-
temporal" model without torturing the data or making the expla-
nation too ad hoc?

					Ron Rizzo