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The author reviews recent physiological research on dreams and re-evaluates Freud's concepts of dream formation and function. No evidence is presented which casts any significant doubt upon psychoanalytic dream psychology. Giora does propose, however, two alternate functions of dreaming: the need for kinesthetic fantasy to maintain coherence of the body image (dreams providing a rich source of kinesthetic fantasy experience), and the continuation of cognitive processes in the sleeping state.