ABSTRACT
In practice, patients will often ignore critical details in their reporting of dreams when they first begin working with them. Despite the irrational nature of dreams, situations that run totally in the face of common sense can yield clues to the patient's issues. When patients recognize that the analyst can effectively organize and interpret dreams, they gain increased confidence in the treatment. All dreams take place in an imaginal three-dimensional space termed a dreamscape. The dreamscape may be the family home, the workplace, or a foreign planet, but there is always a describable space. The quality of relations in dreams is always informative. When a dream figure is well known, e.g., a significant other, the projective potential of the figure has already been limited by experience. If the dream narrative is sufficiently long, the exposition will lead to a crisis. The crisis conveys the maximal tension of the dream and also seeks resolution.
