无论一个人的梦境有多么荒诞，它都是一个人在睡前和醒来之间必要的一段经验填充，它的作用就是维持两个自我间经验的连续性，就像是一个必要的完形填空，只是使用了另一种经验模式（梦）。就像Bion曾经所说的，梦是经验碎片的整合。也就是说，梦承担着不让一个人自我经验中断的重要作用，它维持着精神上的健康，哪怕是噩梦，也一定在试图用最激进的方式调取一个人情感上不容忽视的那部分，好让它延续在日常的醒觉中。比起恐惧，对于精神健康破坏更大的是经验的支离破碎。

quote：Freud (1900) suggested that waking and sleeping realities may not be as experientially unbridgeable as one typically believes them to be when awakening from a dream. He wrote, "The unsophisticated waking judgment of someone who has just woken from sleep assumes that his dreams, even if they themselves did not come from another world, had at all events, carried him off into another world" (p. 7). Freud elaborated further, "Thus the dream experience appears as something alien inserted between two sections of life which are per-fectly continuous and consistent with each other" (p. 10).《Awakening the Dreamer》