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(1990). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 26:716-731

The Dream Within a Dream—Proflection Vs. Reflection

Fred Lipschitz, Ph.D.

A 34 YEAR OLD FEMALE PATIENT has the following dream;

In my parents house, dreaming about waves overtaking me. I found if I kicked my legs and yelled 'Lilly Down' it was easier. I also dreamed my mother introduced me to a friend of hers, but I couldn't see her because I didn't have my glasses and the light was in my eyes. When I woke up I went to the bedroom next door. I told my parents (or just my mother?) about my dream. My mother had a friend there. Her eyes were bloodshot. My mother was worried and seemed to be looking a doctor up in the phone book.

The unique dyadic structure of this type of dream compels the question; why does the dreamer go through the effort of creating an inner dream separate from the larger containing dream, and what is the function of this arrangement. Freud (1900/1973) saw the placing of a dream within a dream as aimed at denying the "reality" of the inner dream-within-a dream. He states:

The intention is once again to detract from the importanc

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