The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.