ABSTRACT
The continued enigma of the dream is well displayed in the famous story (Wu 1990:153) of the Chinese sage who dreamt of a butterfly and, being of a speculative mind, considered the alternative explanation that perhaps he was being dreamt by the butterfly! This chapter considers how dreams are made to represent meanings and, accordingly, how such representation may offer insight into the nature of cultural representation itself and, furthermore, into the anthropological enterprise of writing embodied images down.
