there is a great deal of reserch supporting the temporary theory of dreaming, especially phychological reserch on many series of dreams after traumatic events and at other times. these support especially the tenets of the thoery involving the CI of the dream as in fluenced by dreamer ' underlying emotion. Among the clerest finding are those from a systematic study of 880 dreams before versus after September 11,2001. the dream after September 11, a time of increase stress or emotional arousal, showed higher CI intensity. this difference was highly significant, whereas all other measure tested showed no significant differences, there was also a shift in emotion pictured towrd more fear/terror.