ABSTRACT
The manifest content of the dream refers to all aspects of what the dreamer consciously remembers after waking up and is retained in his memory. All the material remembered after waking up however disconnected, confused and meaningless which makes up the manifest content of a dream is in some way derived from experience. Freud compares the manifest content in a dream to a picture puzzle which even though assembled in its proper relation of each piece to the others may give a nonsensical impression as a whole. This nonsensical puzzle was woven by the dream work and has to be unravelled or translated into another mode of expression. Thus the analyst is presented with the task 'of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter have been changed into the former'.
