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The Dream is an emotional event of which we usually only hear a report or have a memory, although as we shall see it is a matter of some doubt what we mean when we think, or say, we remember a dream. I wish now to extend the term, ‘dream’, to cover the kind of events that take place in an analysis of a schizophrenic – events that appear to me to merit the description, ‘dreams’.
One of the points I wish to discuss is related to the fact that the actual events of the session, as they are apparent to the analyst, are being ‘dreamed’ by the patient not in the sense that he believes that the events observed by him are the same as the events observed by the analyst (except for the fact that he believes them to be a part of a dream, and the analyst believes them to be a part of reality), but in the sense that these same events that are being perceived by the analyst are being perceived by the patient and treated to a process of being dreamed by him. That is, these events are having something done to them mentally, and that which is being done to them is what I call being dreamed – subjected to a process which I hope to describe in more detail.