In this paper I will attempt to highlight why and how dreams may also be seen as a perpetual camera that projects onto some point in the brain what happens in the body. I shall also go over the relationship between dreams and organic illness, and whether and how dreams may effectively predict or describe illness. For this purpose, I will draw upon a conceptual premise based on Bion's thought, upon specific ad hoc examples of how dreams are treated in other cultures and, finally, upon a research carried out precisely with this twofold objective (namely, the dream as a camera on the whole body and the link between dreams and illness) in the Hospital in which I work, with a sample of pregnant women.

Specifically, beyond the results of the research, I have attempted to highlight the fact that conceptualizing the dream as an event connected to the body may constitute a “pavement”, a base, another version of the Freudian daytime residue upon which to lay interpretation: what happens continuously in the dreamer's body as daytime residue and building site in which the dream event is constructed.