Freud thought of dreams as the main road to the unconscious. Freud pointed out that dreams always seem to be self-centered. "The wishes fulfilled in them are invariably this self's wishes". When other people appear in a dream they’re merely symbols of ourselves or symbolized what another person means to us. He believed that whenever a strange figure entered his dreamscape, the personage undoubtedly represented some aspect of himself that could not be expressed in waking consciousness. Freud wondered about the stories in history of someone being told to do something in a dream, maybe giving a wise urging that proves to be correct. Freud admires the respect that ancient peoples paid to this sort of dream, because at a scientific level he thought
