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This monograph presents a unified mathematical framework for the formal analysis of dreaming (REM mentation), comprising twenty-one interlocking components developed across 125 pages with full formal definitions, propositions, proofs, seven computational toy models, and a 155-term glossary. The framework treats the brain as a generative system whose output-when deprived of external sensory input during sleep-exhibits a suite of structural properties recognizable as dreamlike: local coherence with global inconsistency, lazy specification of detail, drifting relational structure, virtual complexity, affective saturation, and near-total loss of content at termination. The relationship between the model and actual dreaming is analogous to the relationship between the Ising model and ferromagnetism: the model captures structural regularities without claiming ontological identity with the target system.

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