What is the relationship between dreams as ordinarily understood and what I am calling transitive dreaming – the turning of actual experience into a form suitable for storage? I say (the) patient can no more make use of experiences without dreaming than he can make use of food without digesting it: food must be digested; equally the experience must at the time it is experienced be ‘dreamed’. Then what is the dream ordinarily so-called? It is a failure of the patient to dream the experience of sleep. He fails to ‘digest’ the experience of sleep. If he ‘remembers’ a dream, he means he has to wake up before he can leave the dream, just as my psychotic patient has to come to analysis before he can ‘dream’, In both instances it is because he cannot tolerate the synthesizing, digesting process of the dream because he cannot tolerate what is synthesized (namely the super-ego?).