And it is modest in recognizing that it is still incomplete. If you can stand such ambition of ends in the face of such humility of means, I welcome you to give yourself to this endeavor. Further evidence that dream emotion does not depend on the body comes from dream reports. Instead, it comes from the hypothalamus or amygdala. They decide to respond or not respond, to record or not record, to store or not store.
Sensory input is blocked too.
Therefore her loss of control over thought is understandable. Thinking is like a motor act in that it requires top-down control. In REM sleep Delia is still sure of her own identity, but she is not at all in command of her acts. Things just happen to her and she tries, in vain, to figure them out. This dissolution of will in dreams has always posed a severe threat to many ethicists, who are disturbed to think that such a precious human trait as conscience is so fragile as to be dissolved by a change in state.