Dreams present many mysteries of telepathy, clairvoyance, prevision and retrovision. The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities.

I recall the startling, vivid realism of a dream in which I lived through the horror of the bombing of a little Korean town. I am sure that nothing within me is capable of composing that life-like sequence, so complete in detail, from the hodge-podge of news pictures I have seen. And when psychology explains glibly, ``but the subconscious mind is able to produce it'' it refers to a mental region so vaguely identified that it may embrace the entire universal mind as conceivably as part of the individual mind.

Skeptics may deny the more startling phenomena of dreams as things they have never personally observed, but failure to wonder at their basic mystery is outright avoidance of routine evidence.

The question becomes, ``What is a dream?''

Is a dream simply a mental or cerebral movie?

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available. In most cases we recognize certain words, persons, animals or objects. But these are dreamed in original action, in some particular continuity which we don't remember having seen in real life. For instance, the dreamer sees himself seated behind neighbor Smith and, with photographic realism, sees Smith driving the car; whereas, it is a matter of fact that Smith cannot drive a car. There is nothing to suggest that the brain can alter past impressions to fit into an original, realistic and unbroken continuity like we experience in dreams.