Tolpin and I concur that dreaming is a complex, image-dominated mentational process that continues and closely corresponds with waking mentational processes. Tolpin's view of all mentational processes as expressions of “the experiencing self-mind” positions us accurately, I believe, to address the overall functions and motivations of a person's waking and dreaming mentation. What I have posited to be the supraordinate functions of dreaming mentation (which include the function of conflict resolution, applicable to Tolpin's dream; see Fosshage, 1983, p. 658) also applies to waking mentation.