One would have thought that, more than forty years after the discovery of paradoxical sleep and its relationship with dreams, we would already have an adequate description of the dream experience. They argue that in order to obtain a truly representative sample of dreams, it is necessary to systematically collect dream reports in the laboratory. Since, even in the laboratory, there is no direct access to dream experience, the authors are explicit about their reliance on dream recall and reporting. dream for our knowledge of it. Strauch and Meier draw attention to a number of different approaches to this problem: (a) typological description, (b) enumeration, (c) description of dream interactions, and (d) situation representation , themes, dreams. They point out that simply listing the characteristics of a dream or series of dreams does not address the dream process. By this they mean the “what” of the dream experience: the sensations, thoughts, emotions, and mode of presentation (e.g., strangeness). ) of the dream. They discover that sensations, that is to say visual, auditory and bodily phenomena, are...