ABSTRACT
The data reported in the previous chapter cast further light on the nature of the basic deficit that underlies the syndrome of nonvisual dreaming (cf. chapter 13). Thus far, the most robust finding of the present study was the observation that cessation or restriction of visual dream-imagery is invariably associated with a precisely analogous deficit in waking imagery. This striking association was noted in all but 1 of the 15 cases reported in the previous literature and in both of the cases in our own series. In all of these cases the deficit was confined to the visual modality. In some of them the deficit was even more specific and affected only circumscribed aspects of visual imagery.
