Now that I think about it, there is a way to prove that it really is dreaming, and not just an increase in brain activity. After monitoring people's brain activity and noticing an increase, you can simply wake people up when it's over and see if they remember just having a dream. Then the subject wouldn't have time to forget the dream.

I'm pretty sure I've heard that this was actually done.
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