ABSTRACT
In 1923 Freud strove to make a distinction between two kinds of dreams, those ‘from above’ and those ‘from below’:
Dreams from below are those which are provoked by the strength of an unconscious (repressed) wish which has found a means of being represented in some of the day's residues. They may be regarded as inroads of the repressed into waking life. Dreams from above correspond to thoughts or intentions of the day before which have contrived during the night to obtain reinforcement from repressed material that is debarred from the ego [Freud, 1923a, p. 111].
