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This paper is an interesting integration of recent neurophysiologic dream research and psychoanalytic dream theory. For example, 'Freud's observation that the state of sleep makes the formation of dreams possible by reduction of the power of censorship is equivalent to saying the REM activity and its attendant activation of limbic circuits is made possible by the reduction in controlling influences stemming from corticofugal inhibitory systems'. The author's comfort
with the complexities of both neurophysiology and psychoanalysis is impressive. Material from sensory deprivation studies with waking subjects is also introduced into the discussion.