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A technique for the recovery of dreams as they are dreamed throughout the night has enabled us to re-examine the metapsychology of dream forgetting and remembering.
Failure of dream recall, on the basis of primal repression, seems to be due to several factors: (1) the difficulty of conceputalizing primary-process thinking in secondary-process terms; (2) the energy demands on the ego to deal on the one hand with the dream and on the other with incoming sensory stimuli and also to initiate motor activity; and (3) the difficulty in recalling a completed (oral) experience as compared with an interrupted one.