Another major aspect of the nature of dreams, are the three types of dreams identified by Freud. Intelligible dreams can easily be understood and fit in with the context of our mental life. The second type is bewildering dreams, which can be recounted but do not relate to your life. Finally, the third type is confused, disconnected, and meaningless, which is the most common type of dream and have the strongest manifest and latent content. “The contrast between the manifest and latent content of dreams is clearly of significance only for dreams of the second and more particularly the third category.” (149) He states that because we do not fully understand the second or third type of dream, psychoanalysis must be used to reveal the latent content. Thus, these different types of dreams play a role in determining the nature of our dreams in terms of how they relate to manifest and latent content.

In order to understand the content of dreams, dream-work deals with the idea of displacement. Displacement causes dream content to have a different center from the dream-thoughts. Freud uses displacement in the process of dream-work. Displacement helps move from latent content to manifest content. Analysis of dreams undoes displacement, allowing us to obtain truth between the instigators of dreams and their connection to waking life. Henceforth, it is important to use psychoanalysis to ensure that displacement doesn’t mask the true meaning of a dream. “If what makes their way into the content of dreams are impressions and material which are indifferent and trivial rather than justifiably stirring and interesting, that is only the effect of the process of displacement.” (156) He is saying that dreams are important and meaningful, and that only through displacement can it appear otherwise. Freud is supporting his theory that all dreams come from one’s self and represent repressed feelings and thoughts.

Another part of the process of dream-work is the dream composition. Freud says this part demonstrates how some dream’s work. By observing the dream composition a person can reveal the origin of the activity in their dream and fully understand the purpose or meaning of the dream. He also argues that dream composition can also serve to confuse a person if it is set up in a way that doesn’t readily make sense. This can cause us to misinterpret a dream by trying to relate it to something already known to us. “Its function would then consist in arranging the constituents of the dream in such a way that they form an approximately connected whole, a dream composition. In this way the dream is given a kind of façade and thus receives a first, preliminary interpretation, which is supported by interpolations.” (161) This quote demonstrates how dream composition can either help interpret dreams, or create false conclusions about a dream.

The final aspect of dreams Freud