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Abstract
This article considers daydreams as a means of understanding the patient and fostering the therapeutic relationship. Daydreams are considered along with fantasies and reverie. The usefulness of the therapist's reverie in response to the daydreams of a patient who is conflicted about being seen and known is explored. Daydreams are considered in relation to creativity—both analytic and artistic; and as a way of bridging inner life and external reality.