At the beginning of January 1956, Adorno wrote down two reflections on dreams that show the special interest he had in this regard: "Certain dream experiences allow me to assume that the individual lives his own death as a cosmic catastrophe." And: "Our dreams are not only linked to each other as" our ", but also form a continuum, they belong to a unitary world, the same, for example, that all Kafka stories pass in" the same. " But the more closely the dreams are connected or repeated, the greater the danger that we can no longer distinguish them from reality.
The recognition of the importance of the motivic connection of his dreams suggested the idea of ​​choosing some of them for publication. This selection did not appear in Adorno's life, and Rolf Tiedemann incorporated it into the twentieth volume of the complete Works. However, to the large number of dreams preserved in notebooks, you have to join those collected in a bundle transcribed by Gretel with a diplomat's fidelity.
The present volume comes, then, to complete the dreams published with the transcripts conserved in typing support.