With psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and the work of the sleep laboratories behind him on the one hand, and, on the other, a broad literary tradition that can draw upon such a diversity of writers as Aristotle, Keats, Coleridge, Charles Darwin, Jean Paul Richter, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Enid Blyton and others, Charles Rycroft writes about dreams with an eloquence and elegance of literary style that is familiar to the readers of his previous publications. As rich a background as that has provided the basis for a communication about