[marcAKAmarc]

This article was very enjoyable. The connection between dream state emotions and musical emotions are undoubtable for me. I've always assumed that they felt so similar because the brain was practicing finding meaning in chaos by recognizing patterns in the chaos, then organizing and categorizing those patterns until meaning can be associated (through previous experience maybe).

However, I do have to say that I did disagree with a few assumptions the article made:

>However dreams are never about the strangeness or the alteration of reality.

Many nightmares that I have are actually about the strangeness of the dream itself. I realize that something is not normal, and instead of determining that I am experiencing a dream (and thus start entering a lucid dream state), I start feeling like I must have lost my sanity. This can be a truly terrifying experience when things really go off the rails.