ABSTRACT
The past century, which was marked by The Interpretation of Dreams, and this one have witnessed an impressive production of psychoanalytic work centred upon dreams and dreaming. Sigmund Freud defines the issues that are important enough to enter our dreams like this: “We only bother to dream of things which have given us cause for reflection in the daytime”. The dream seems to talk to us in present time and: “present tense is the one in which desire is represented as fulfilled”. The present is the time of the dream that unfolds through incorporation of day residues. Domhoff applies his hypothesis of embodied simulation to studying a widower’s dreams of his deceased wife; 143 dreams which were written down over twenty-two years of his widowerhood. E. Hartmann and T. Brezler collected 880 dreams of forty-four people, each of them providing a total of twenty dreams in the following way, ten dreams prior to the traumatic event and ten following it.
