In momentary defence of the particular boffin, isn’t there a chance that his or her assertion holds water on his or her side of the reality membrane? He or she may equally have blogged that ‘…ridiculously, a bloke in my dream thought “siskin” was a kind of bird’ and so on.

Traffic with the dreamworld is fraught with potential for misunderstanding, and we should perhaps reserve judgment to prevent friction developing, hostilities escalating, and perhaps even war breaking out between the two realms.