As our relationships with language mature, words begin to evoke cascades of complex interpretive cognition which ordinarily remain largely invisible to consciousness. In effect, this is almost always an experience of group cognition, because there is a factor involved which is audience-like, even when we are alone. So what we actually get is cascades of -distributed- interpretive cognition with diversely endowed and motivated agents. This is, effectively, like a storm of group-dreaming. And it is from this, or something very like this, that meaning emerges to our experience.