Condensation and dramatization are the most important and interesting characteristics of a dream. However, in some cases these typical events are not enough to explain the whole dream. Freud believes there is a third aspect of the dream called “dream-thoughts.” This refers to a kind of weakening of the censorship while asleep. This is what allows people to dream about certain events or activities that would usually be ignored or blocked out.
He then discovers that dreams usually don’t focus on something that has recently happened. If a person dreams about an event in their life it is always at the earliest a day after it takes place and is so insignificant and unmemorable that the person who dreamt it has a great deal of trouble recalling it.
Freud also talks a lot about metaphors and certain objects representing something completely different for the exception of a few details. These metaphors can be an example of dramatization because we are forced to look deeper than the object in front of us to truly understand the dream.
Much of what Freud says makes a lot of sense. If you were to think back to a dream you had I’m sure there are many times when you were in a certain place or saw some kind of object that might not have made much sense but that is because it has a deeper meaning or actually stands for something els