Instead of keeping a diary, Meret Oppenheim records her dreams at all stages of her life. In her writing, she avoids any form of poetic embellishment. Her focus is on reality, the event, the normality of the dream. This conscious restraint contains an artistic credo; the artist sees her true achievement in the discipline and intensity of her receptiveness. She applies the dream techniques of copying, imitating, and mimicry, which are at work in dreams, across all areas of her work. Just like the poems, the dream records can direct attention to the dream-analogous, cinematographic methods she employs in her work with objects and images.