Dear List,
Recording or telling a dream seems no more than a narrative task,
interesting or boring depending on the dream's content and the
narrator's skill. One has neither to praise nor mock Freud to posit a
dream's communicative purpose. Presuming that the dream-recaller is
attempting to convey something to the dream-listener does require that
each has some reasonable interest in the other. Something like the
"good writer" and the "good reader", and as suggested by SKB, not
cocktail party stuff.
Years ago I wondered that a Nabokov dream [New Yorker VVN Centenial]
was ignored by the List, but the subject passed and was forgotten,
like a bad dream.
-Sandy Drescher