“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”

—  Sigmund Freud, book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

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