ABSTRACT
Freud has alluded in very many of his papers to the similarities between day-dreams and dreams. According to him day-dreams share a large number of their properties with night-dreams and their investigation might in fact have served as the shortest and best approach to an understanding of night-dreams. The day-dream is a form of thinking during waking life that takes place in the conscious or the preconscious and obeys its own laws, having its own peculiarities. The night-dreams have been described by Freud as merely a 'form of thinking', a transformation of preconscious material of thought by the dream-work and its condition. It takes place during the sleeping state. Like dreams they are wish-fulfilments and based to a great extent on impressions of infantile experiences and they benefit from a certain degree of relaxation from the censorship.
