dream
Now I would like to turn my attention to consideration of the question, Is the dream a text? And following that, a narrower question, Can the dream be properly thought of as a narrative? Although it has been assumed in past decades that text and narrative are terms appropriately applied to dreams, I would like look closely at these assumptions. I am going to propose that all dreams are texts, although this proposal rests on a particular use of the term dream, which is to be clarified below. I also propose that some but not necessarily all dream texts are narratives. I am interested here in the form of dreams, in their narrativity, by way of inquiring into the cognitive aspects of narrative structure and its relation to language. I am also interested in the role of language in the generation of dreams. I am not here attempting to formulate an interpretative system for dreams, although I believe an encounter with potential meaning is unavoidable, accepting as I do that the dream is a metaphor in motion (Ullman 1969), and that in narrative the functional units are already units of conten

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