Steel grey again this morning on Harris Creek; rain during the dream time and prospects all day today. The creek is flowing south this morning, following the wind out into the bay. It is a flowing mirror reflecting a still grey sky. A story or a person is not unlike a flowing mirror, a linear representation of plastic images that are not arranged in sequence, but rather woven into a seamless fabric. Italo Calvino recounts the method in his novel, The Castle of Crossed Destinies. A group of travelers spending night in the same castle, are unable to speak after passing through the forest surrounding the castle, and use a deck of tarot cards to tell of their journey to this story-telling place.

The dream body is such a seamless fabric and the images which compose the fabric are "over-determined", subject to multiple interpretations. Freud's method of dream interpretation is analagous to that of Calvino's group of travelers. Freud, like the travelers, knew what had happened "the day before" and so interpreted the symbolic images in a way that conformed to his knowledge.

Dream interpretation, or story-telling translates one way of meaning into another way of meaning. The dream body itself in unaffected by the translation; it continues to mean the way it means. For me, the most important insight to be gathered from Freud's work on human dreams, is not in what the dream means, but in how the dream means. The way the dream means is the way the unconscious body means; it means through "over-determination", or, imagination. The interpretation is a conceptual process.