In the manic state, the subject cannot access dreams; he can no longer dream when asleep, but dreams when awake, thanks to the hallucinatory capacities of the psychical apparatus. According to Freudian theories on dream formation, the essential operation for producing dreams is topographical regression to the unconscious repressed material. This unconscious material seems to be bypassed in the manic state, since its content appears to be dangerous, revealing a fragile and deadly tie with the object. During manic episodes, the illusory restoration of this tie is depicted in grandiose scenarios, in which the manic subject feels that he or she exists, under the gaze of the object, transferred onto the world. Topographical regression is impossible, the possibility of sleeping is barred, and the manic subject enjoys a hallucinatory life fuelled by total regression to primary narcissism.