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Interdisciplinary work between psychoanalysis and computational neuroscience has led to iterations of psychoanalytic theory (M. L. Solms, 2018). Importantly, it has bolstered orthodox psychoanalytic claims of dreams revealing unconscious beliefs, using the language of predictive processing (Koslowski et al., 2023; Nir & Tononi, 2010). Within predictive processing, dreams are equivalent to memories or hallucinations, where visual imagery is predicated upon deeper priors in “mnemonic” and “libidinal” systems. Dreams are suggested as elaborating priors—from nondeclarative forms into declarative form (Koslowski et al., 2023). Also enabling the affect to be better revealed, due to secondary defenses when awake. With a predictive processing account of eye movement desensitization reprocessing postulated by Chamberlin (2019), it is logical to suppose eye movement desensitization reprocessing could remediate distress caused by repressed priors, as revealed in dreams. This article provides grounds to explore dreams as material in eye movement desensitization reprocessing, extending its therapeutic scope.