Ein dienst zu Nacht ist wiser Leben Genuss ist fauler Wachter Traum:

Vor keinem Hirngespinnste beben -So leicht es klingt, kanns einer kaum!

Feuchtersleben

There are in fact no dreams without affects. Dreams unaccompanied by affects, or but slightly colored, are not remembered. That the dream process begins the moment we close our eyes seems to me self-evident. Later I shall give a few examples in connection with the discussion of hypnagogic pictures. We always dream when asleep. When the affect becomes so strong as to rouse our consciousness we wake up. In the same way we remember only the dreams strongly toned with affects. Only such dreams enlist our attention. In fact, attention is an affectative state, as Bleuler 1 has shown very convincingly. The dream is but an interplay of images in the service of our affects.

The affects which break clearly through the dream are of particular significance because they are the repressed affects.