Strange jumps in plot, foreign details popping up in well-known surroundings, complex dream figures, and references to many different phases and events in the dreamer’s life can, and do, appear in dreams. In his analysis of dreams Sigmund Freud found that individual dream elements could be the junctions of many dream-thoughts. Internal conditions, which to the limited capacity of the analytical waking consciousness look like chaos, turn out to have a more poetic dream language reflecting an order of greater complexity. From the point of view of neuroscience, the first thing that comes to mind is an activation of the so-called separation distress or panic system. A dream about ‘my childhood home is on fire’ corresponds to the experience of a destructively inflamed atmosphere in the home of one’s parents. The separation distress system seems to be intimately connected to social bonding and the process of parenting.