ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author demonstrates how an understanding of mentation in dreams may help them understand all mentation and summarizes the different mental operations. The mindbrain is always on the lookout for similarities and concordances in the world. In dreams, we see evidence of how the mindbrain transforms the world during the time that it mostly does not have to deal directly with the world. In Sigmund Freud’s description of what he called the dreamwork, he observed the many ways that the mindbrain changes, manipulates, and combines aspects of reality. Freud's model was that the mindbrain starts with "dream thoughts" which can be formulated as sentences, and the dreaming mindbrain transforms and disguises the dream thoughts into the language of dreams, of images and emotions. The questions of agency and experience are complicated when it comes to our dreams.
