DISCUSSION: Dr. Carl Brotman said that in his experience dreams do not become shorter as the analysis progresses; rather the patient has more ability to select what the analyst is interested in or to present themes rather than details. He had two patients who kept journals while in analysis. Their reported dreams got shorter, but the same dreams written in the journals remained long and detailed. Dr. Daniel Jacobs also stated that in his experience dreams did not get shorter. He wondered if there might be a built-in resistance in the shorter dreams. Dr. Kenerson replied that when he had gone over his cases to look at this phenomenon, he noticed that when patients were dealing with more conflictual material, they tended to have longer dreams. Dr. Ana-Maria Rizzuto brought up the discrepancy between the analyst's image of the patient's dream and the patient's own dream image. It often