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In article <C0Io7F.BrH@iat.holonet.net> ken@iat.holonet.net 
     (Ken Easlon) writes:

>I distinguish the sense of "down" [during dreams] from the perception of
>gravity (pressure, effort) because I believe the sense of "down" in dreams
>is imagined, coming from the direction of my feet when I dream I am
>standing, where gravity perception when I drift back to wakefulness is
>coming from another angle.

On this facet of the conversation, I don't think that we disagree as
much as it might at first have appeared.  If we disagree at all here,
I think it's only in that I'm trying to get across that I think that
your feet (and hence the direction to them) is imaginary in your
dreams.  As you begin to wake, you become aware of your body, and the
imagined "to your feet" lines up with the actual "to your feet"
perhaps before you become aware of the direction of "to the earth".
If, in your dream "to your feet" lined up with "to the earth", you
recognize this discrepancy as you come to.  I think that this scenario
is consistent with your observations.  Do you agree (not necessarily
with the scenario, but with the consistency)?

>Ken Easlon                | "...somebody spoke and I went into a dream..."

Mickey Rowe     (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)