In this article, the author discusses the links between dreaming and reverie. According to Bion, reverie originates in dream work. Some contemporary data on reverie by post-Bionians are discussed. The author then takes up the Botellas' work on figurability and regredience: the analyst's figurability is rooted in dreamwork according to the Freudian model and is distinct from reverie, which, in their view, is confined to the preconscious and the intersubjective realm, and lacks the qualities of regredience which has the potential to gain access to the unrepresentable and/or the traumatic. Using a clinical example, the author discusses these arguments and argues, on the contrary, that reverie can be a work of figurability, while acknowledging the risks of abuses, particularly as a result of certain technical attitudes and theoretical positions (direct communication of daydreams from the analyst to the analysand, considering reveries as an end in themselves, etc.).