The first thing the investigator comes to understand in comparing the dream-content with the dream-thoughts is that work of condensation has been carried out here on a grand scale.
the Interpretation Of Dreamsby sigmund Freud
I always find the same principles confirmed: the elements formed into the dream are drawn from the entire mass of the dream-thoughts, and in its relation to the dream-thoughts each one of the elements seems to be determined many times over.
dream / elements / principles / thoughts
Dreams are never concerned with trivia.
As a scientific rationalist, Freud distrusts the manifest content of dreams.
distrusts / dreams / freud / rationalist
Quite often they are lines of thought starting out from more than one centre, but not without their points of contact; almost invariably one train of thought is accompanied by its contradictory opposite, associatively linked to it by contrast.
But the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.
focus / interconnections / psychical / sleep / wish
The dream has no way at all of expressing the alternative “either/or”. It usually takes up the two options into one context as if they had equal rights.
Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.
We shall be obliged to put forward a set of new assumptions touching speculatively on the structure of the psychical apparatus and the play of forces active in it, though we must take care not to spin them out too far beyond their first logical links, for if we do, their worth will vanish into uncertainty.
assumptions / Forces / logical / psychical / uncertainty
A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements — at any rate, in certain fields (“Memory”).
achievements / dream / memory / observers