This paper highlights mutual regulatory and very basic, pre-symbolic communicative functions that can be served by dreams in the analytic dyad, focusing on patients who seem unable to reflect on dreams in the usual ways, and who reject the notion that dreams are meaningful, yet present many dreams in their treatments. I provide a brief history of views on the place of dreams in analysis, and argue that dreams, by virtue of their unique position as indisputable products of the patients own mind, which are also separate enough from patient and analyst to be reflected on, may be especially useful in creating “analytic space” and developing their ability to articulate and reflect on internal experience with patients where this is sometimes quite difficult to do. I illustrate the concepts presented with a case example.