The latency child in treatment exhibits varying attitudes toward the relating and discussion of dreams. Latency is the time for the renunciation of direct instinctual and fantasy gratification by a maturing ego oriented toward reality. For some latency children fear of dreams may stem from fear of the unconscious and of primary process. Those children who control these upsurges most effectively bring in fewer dreams and discuss them more superficially. In children who cannot adequately master their instinctual drives, the dream may serve