dream imagery
Nocturnal mental scenes
Dream imagery refers to the visual, sensory, and symbolic content that appears in dreams—the scenes, objects, people, and events the sleeping mind generates.
The term appears most often in psychology and literary analysis, where interpreting dream imagery may reveal unconscious thoughts or artistic meaning: The film's dream imagery drew on Jungian archetypes.
Dream imagery can also describe any dreamlike or surreal visual quality: The photographer captured dream imagery of fog-shrouded forests.
- lucid dreamingSleep state with awareness
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- collective unconsciousInherited psychological heritage of humanity
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
- dreamscapesImaginary sleeping vistas
REM sleep · deep sleep · archetype · visual metaphor · emotion · oneiric · anima · vision · hallucination · Salvador Dalí · melting clocks · night terror · mandala · sleep paralysis · memory · waking life · myth · surrealism
- imagerymetaphor, symbolism, allegory, sensory detail, visual metaphor
- Symbolist PoetryBaudelaire, symbol, symbols, correspondences, synesthesia
- dreamsnightmare, dreaming, daydream, nightmares, dreams
- imaginationimagination, daydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, fantasy
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud