Although many of his interpretations sound quaint to present-day ears, Artemidorus was surprisingly modern in some respects ( Fontana 89). ... The same may be true of the brain's response to other dream sensations: certainly, stimuli such as a spray of water, a strong smell, a sudden sound such as the ringing of an alarm clock, a voice, a few notes of music, or a brief flash of light, may all be incorporated into dream and "rationalized" in some way to fit in with its content ( Wade 173). ... By avoiding narrative and emotional complexity of REM dreams and instead loosening the us...

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