Irish massaged her forehead and said in a husky voice, "Once one has vascular disease, it means that he never dreams." According to the research, when one dreams in his right hemisphere, the feeling and influence are transmitted to the left hemisphere, and in this way, he could illustrate the content of his dream.
Bernert had been describing his dream to her even with a detailed and fresh introduction of the plot, so she thought that he had been dreaming it repeatedly. That would explain why he had such a clear memory. However, when Blair conducted cognitive therapy for Bernert, he found that he had right hemisphere vascular disease. As a researcher on dreams, she clearly knew that one with right hemisphere vascular disease would never dream. That was to say, every plot Bernert had described to her was not a dream at all!