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Recent observations on the psychophysiology of sleep and dreaming are brought to bear on Freud's hypothesis that the dream serves the function of protecting sleep. EEG monitored sleep showing the metronomically recurring periods of dreaming sleep, and the continuum of sleep depth are viewed by the author as supporting a neurophysiological basis for dreaming and casting doubt on the purely psychological hypothesis of sleep protection.