Dream analysis can be beneficial in the therapeutic setting to gain insight into the psyche. However, theorists often disagree on how much emphasis should be placed on these interpretations as well as the depth of symbolism within the content of the dreams. On one side of the spectrum, according to Freud’s therapeutic framework, Psychoanalytic Theory, dreams are viewed as the “royal road to the unconscious” (Corey, p. 74). He believed that within the dream phenomenon, our ego’s defenses are weakened, revealing repressed material into our awareness. The therapist is tasked with unearthing the latent content or hidden meaning behind the manifested or exhibited content in the client’s dreams. In Freud’s perspective, these meanings often are
