This article examines the status of waiting when it takes the form of endless, endured waiting, as depicted in Waiting for Godot. In contrast to “dreamy” waiting, bringing hope, this immobilizing waiting offers nothing but idleness and routine, where one gets bogged down in inactivity. In particular, it shows how this aimless waiting disrupts and disorganizes the temporality of Chronos (common, rational, linear), giving rise to phenomena of repetition and temporal distortions (déjà vu, condensation, accélération, contraction, etc.) typical of the temporality of dreams and the emergence of primary processes. Beckett's play thus seems to illustrate the two temporal models of dreams as defined by Freud: that of traumatic dreams, which repeat a scene ad infinitum, and that of dreams as wish-fulfilment, in which the work of distortion can disorganize temporality.