Surrealist poets, of whom Breton was representative, recorded and published their dreams as an experimental mode. For these writers the dream was "central to their artistic and political goals" and a form of communication on various levels. The author attempts to analyze dreams reported by Breton that were published in major periodicals during the 1920's. The absence of associations of the dreamer "seems justified," we are told, because the meanings of the dream "lay in their intention to make a specific intellectual point."