In this article a psychoanalytic treatment will be employed to illustrate the use of dreams as indicators of the psychoanalytic process. The author hopes to demonstrate that dreams offer indications about what is happening in the process of psychoanalytic treatment, and awareness of this is useful in furthering therapeutic goals. Another theme is the conflict about personal agency in which the patient and analyst were intertwined. The patient's dreams showed her struggle to become an effective, creative, independent woman, rather than subordinating her interests and mind to men, or sacrificing her femininity, imitating men to function independently, while the author experienced his ambition to write this article with ambivalence. Freud's “royal road” appears well furnished with speed limits, traffic directions, destination indicators, and warning signs.