Carly Hunter Autumn/Winter 2013 Campaign

Carly Hunter A/W 13, entitled “Escape Into Reality”, campaign images.

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Reality Testing in Dreams by Thomas M. French

Since earliest times, dreams have been credited with prophetic significance. Freud has pointed out that this belief in the prophetic value of dreams is, in part, both justified and explained by the fact that the function of dreams is to represent wishes as fulfilled. Wishes often succeed in attaining fulfillment also in real life. Hence it is not strange that dreams should often prove to be prophetic.

Freud (1913) has also called attention o the fact that a person, immediately after awakening from sleep, may be able to solve a different intellectual problem with which he had been struggling with in vain before going to sleep. It has been abundantly demonstrated that both the ill and the superego continue to function in dreams. Observations of the sort just cited, indicate further that the ego’s function to find solutions for problems in real life may also be continued in sleep.