1. Dreaming is not merely a reactive phenomenon, reactive to instinctual pressure, inner or outer stimuli, a traumatic past or a disturbing present. Dreaming is an active, creative process. 2. Dreaming is not an irrational, regressive, libidinous phenomenon, but a dynamic biological function of the human organism. It reflects the striving for self-realization whether it is fully expressed or blocked by anxiety-charged neurotic needs. 3. Dreaming is characterized by a widened scope of perception, particularly of self-awareness. 4. Dreaming occurs in a state of lessened self-alienation and can become a “door to the larger self”. 5. Symbol formation in dreams is not a reductive process, characterized by perceptive insufficiency, regression and censorship. It is a creative act in which the dreamer's strivings, conflicts and attempts at solution are crystallized. The past enters the dream as a dynamic symbol of the present. 6. Dreaming is the latent phase of creative insight and self-realization. It is man's encounter with himself, his life (past, present and future) and his world. 7. The dream becomes a creative force in therapy if it is permitted to speak for itself, if the therapist does not become a killer of the dream by reducing it to preconceived stereotypes, and if the patient learns to “own” his dream.