Along these lines, why do dreams often make internal sense, or follow a dream logic?
They don’t. They are “secondarily revised.” Secondary revision is what puts the dream in tellable order. Freud thought it occurs upon waking up — during the transition between dreaming sleep and waking. A lot of people think secondary revision occurs after you wake up as you’re recalling the dream. You’re not recalling “and then I saw this, then I saw that.” So it’s impossible to recall the dream the way it actually happened, because your mind won’t let you? No, you won’t. In fact, you may be left only with a little memory of one image, but there’s a whole story that seems to be connected with it, and your mind makes the leap. You don’t know if you actually dreamed it, or if you’re putting it together in your waking mind. “Mulholland Drive” is an incredibly moving, lush, sensual dream — you not only see things, you can hear the gravel under car tires, feel the tropical breeze of the swaying palms and warmth of a streetlight. Is it realistic for a dream to give as much sensory stimula
