ABSTRACT
Dreaming is a process which serves the wish to sleep by dealing with disturbing psychical and sensory stimuli in such a way as to permit sleep to continue. Sleep may be disturbed by internal or external sensory stimuli, by pre-occupations, anxieties and preconscious wishes left over from waking life, as well as by unconscious wishes that press towards consciousness. Censorship or Superego wishes may be expressed in unpleasant dreams, punishment dreams. Where this occurs the superego wish is not, however, the only wish expressed in the latent dream content. Bodily needs occuring during the night may give rise to wishes which may be presented as fulfilled in the dream, or in some way woven into the manifest content of the dream. Such wishes are not in themselves sufficient to form a dream.
