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Technically and economically the report of a dream indicates an irradiation of hidden areas of the psyche, and therefore offers a point of special attraction to the psychoanalyst. It is equally the irradiation of hidden areas, i.e. the cathexis of non-dynamic memories, which facilitates the expression of crude impulses. It is this expression, and the reflections of the ego upon its derivatives, which gives to the dream a prognostic significance and its special importance as an attempt at communication. It is a corollary that a dream may need to be interpreted not over one session alone, but over several, as its significance unfolds.