TY - JOUR T1 - DReaming as metaphor in motion AU - Ullman M Y1 - 1969/12/01 N1 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740240056007 JO - Archives of General Psychiatry SP - 696 EP - 703 VL - 21 IS - 6 N2 - The Dream is a law to itself; and as well quarrel with a rainbow for showing, or for not showing, a secondary arch. The Dream knows best, and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party.—De QuinceyTHERE is a timely need for the revision of dream theory along the following lines: (1) away from metapsychological speculation about dream origins, functions, form, and structure; (2) toward seeing the dream as an aspect of a total behavioral response; (3) toward examining the formal characteristics of dream thought in their intimate association with the altered level of brain function occurring at the time; (4) toward an examination of content as derivative of a social existence that in turn has unknown as well as known dimensions; and (5) toward the development and application of techniques for translating the dream metaphor that are not derived from or limited by SN - 0003-990X M3 - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740240056007 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740240056007 ER -