ABSTRACT
The artistic goal of penetrating the boundaries between dream and reality is set forth in the First
Surrealist Manifesto, wherein Breton (1924/1965) expresses his belief “in the future resolution of these
two states-outwardly so contradictory-which are dream and reality, into a sort of absolute reality, a
surreality” (p. 70). Botz-Borenstein (2007) further expounds on this surrealist goal:
To produce surreality means to create a new reason able to penetrate into a “reality more
true than reality” (to use a phrase by Timbaud). The surrealist idea to free itself from the
tyranny of logic signified to free oneself from the “inferior” consciousness as it exists in
our waking life. Logic needed to be deconstructed into a dream logic. (p. 108)
And quoting Blanchot (1974), Botz-Borenstein (2007) associates surrealist dream logic with “a certain
point of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, the
communicable and the incommunicable, the high and low no longer appear as contradictory” (p. 105).
Recent research suggests that dreams are more surreal, and daydreams more dreamlike, in people
