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In his sleep, Vishnu dreamed
the dream of the Universe.
—The Bhagavad-GitaAll life is a dream
and the dreams are dreams from a dream.
—Calderon de la Barca
WHEN FREUD (1900) BEQUEATHED to us his legacy—the understanding of the dream—psychoanalysis, patients, and laymen generally became so intoxicated with this new unraveling of the Linear B of the content of unconscious communication that the staging of the dream took little notice amongst scholars and dreamers generally. I believe the dream stage is a very important psychic container which has important and intricate relations with its content, the dream. Bion's concept of the container and the contained has so wide an application in psychological and biological phenomena generally that I believe it amounts to a new natural law (Bion 1962), (1963), (1965), (1966), (1970), (1975). Since Bion himself has not stated it so