Representations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influencednot only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunitiesoffered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or mediumwhich was chosen for them. The essays in the two volumes of thispublication consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dreamreports and fictional dreams in epic poems, dream visions, satires, theChinese genre zhiguai, novels, lyrical poems, prose poems, dramasdream plays, Japanese mugen no plays, radio plays, paintings, comicsfilms, video games, operas, and instrumental music. The authors andartists discussed include Artemidorus, Bachmann, Baudelaire, BergmanBerlioz, Bertrand, Boulanger, Borchert, Burroughs, CalderónChaucer, de Chirico, Christine de Pizan, Eich, Gan Bao, GarnierHandke, A. Hardy, Heine, Hitchcock, Homer, Jean Paul, Liu XiangKurosawa, Levi, Liszt, Magritte, Matisse, Murnau, Nabokov, RedonJ. Renoir, Reverdy, Rimbaud, Quevedo, Saariaho, Sebald, SpiegelmanSwedenborg, Strindberg, Trakl, Valmiki, Vermeer, Virgil, R. Wagnervon Wysocki, Zeami, and many others.