The Limits of Dream focuses on what we currently know of the human
central nervous system (CNS), examining the basic sciences of
neurochemisty, neuroanatomy, and CNS electrophysiology as these
sciences apply to dream, then reaching beyond basic science to examine
the cognitive science of dreaming including the processes of memory,
the perceptual interface, and visual imagery. Building on what is known
of intrapersonal CNS processing, the book steps outside the physical
body to explore artificially created dreams and their use in
filmmaking, art and story, as well as the role of dreaming in creative
process and creative madness. The limits of our scientific knowledge of
dream frame this window that can be used to explore the border between
body and mind. What is known scientifically of the cognitive process of
dreaming will lead the neuroscientist, the student of cognitive
science, and the general reader down different paths than expected into
an exploration of the fuzzy and complex horizon between mind and
brain.