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The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and economic crisis unprecedented in human history. It never happened that analyst and patient were immersed in the same potentially traumatic reality, nor that they had to use a different setting from the usual one. The author recounts his own experience in the period of time from the beginning to the closing of the first national lockdown in Italy from 9 March to 18 May 2020. To this end, he reports some dreams, as usual, the most sensitive seismographs of the unconscious resonances of our emotions. They reflect alternating feelings of fear and uncertainty, but these impact on everyone's psyche in different ways. The likelihood that fear, which when intense approaches fright, will produce trauma depends on how the individual's inner world is structured. That's why, in order to continue to give importance to psychic reality, the question the author tries to answer is: when the noise of concrete reality is deafening, who is the author of the dream and what is the dream about? The idea that is proposed is that despite the weight of a traumatic reality the analyst should never stop using the concept of the unconscious as a compass. If he did, this would be a proof that the theatre of analysis, to take up a Freudian metaphor, has gone to fire.