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From: ylikoski@opmvax.kpo.fi (Antti Ylikoski tel +358 0 457 2704)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: the surrealism of dreams
Message-ID: <74@opmvax.kpo.fi>
Date: 27 Mar 89 00:18:34 GMT
Organization: Tieteellisen Laskennan Palvelu
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I would like to try to contribute to the discussion involving dreams
"not following the usual laws of nature".

The following is my attempt to make a stab at it:

One aspect of one's behaviour can be described as symbol processing
driven by events in both one's external world and in his nonverbal
"internal reality" consisting of feelings and similar things.  During
a dream one's "symbol processing engine" roams free, and this is known
to be good for one's mental health.  (It is known that the deprivation
of the dreaming stage of the sleep, the REM sleep, (for Rapid Eye
Movement) is harmful to one's mental health.)

Andy Ylikoski