Less common forms of dreaming in infancy

This chapter deal with the less common types of dreams in the early infantile period of Marco. These dreams (i.e., first bad dreams, oedipal dreams and bizarre dreams) appear as forms of dreaming that somehow depart from the forms of simple infantile dreams and represent early evolutionary changes in the general function of dreaming towards a progressive greater complexity. Some of these (i.e., bad dreams and frankly bizarre dreams) appear in a more predominant way in the dream repertoire from the second and third periods, between 6 and 10 years of age. At the end of the chapter, the early bizarre aspects in dream contents are analyzed as well as the daytime sources of these minority forms of dreaming.