No doubt, dreaming could always be one of the best parts of sleep, if, according to Freud, it was based only on fulfillment of wishes (1). Nonetheless, it is not constantly so. Cover-ups, which are affected by unconscious mental tricks, like displacement, condensation, adaptable or unprincipled exploitation of daily residues or real incidents, for schematic demonstration of incessant and prohibited erotic or aggressive impulses into allowable demeanor, are totally in service of pulling down cerebral tensions and increasing emotional contentment, whether guardedly or deceivingly.
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