ABSTRACT
Most dream researchers have focused on salient dream topics like social interactions, problems, and so on. In this chapter, the focus is on things that are so normal that we do not pay much attention to them – or only if something is going wrong. For example, references to weekends occur more often in dreams than references to work days, so, do dreams preferentially reflect leisure time activities, at least in this dreamer? Money, telephones, and bed show up in dreams, but typically out of context. For example, dreaming about one own bed in the familiar bedroom at home are very rare, and even if that happened, the circumstances in the dream were unusual – e.g., animals under the bed. Seeing oneself in a mirror (or another reflecting surface) is very rare, even though we do that every day. So, the question arises: why do dreams not reflect everything we experience in waking life in the same way?
