This book explores the interface of dreams, reverie, poetry, and play. It explores set of metaphors introduced by Freud to provide a fresh language and imagery with which to think and speak about the reverie experience of analysts.Other Books by Thomas Ogden -- Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming -- Reverie and Metaphor -- A Question of Voice -- The Music of What Happens in Poetry and Psychoanalysis -- Borges and the Art of Mourning -- Re-Minding the Body -- An Elegy, a Love Song, and a Lullaby -- Reading Winnicott