In this paper Lewin follows up thoughts he had originally presented in 1946. He first recapitulates the idea that the dream screen 'represents the wish to sleep in a pure state'. He then takes up the connection between the dream

screen and the act of forgetting the dream, showing the oral elements involved. He suggests that the resistance of the patient expressed in forgetting dreams can be reduced by interpreting the oral nature of the forgetting. Lewin brings several examples of his own and the experience of others to show how the wish to forget a dream may become part of the content of the dream. He also indicates how other formal elements of the dream, such as remembering it and inflating the manifest dream text are closely tied up with the gratification of oral wishes. Most interesting is Lewin's attempt to explain the visual representation of the dream: according to him it expresses a general wish to be awake.