Synonyms:
distortion, deformation
Meaning: a change for the worse
Synonyms:
distorted_shape, distortion
Meaning: a shape resulting from distortion
Synonyms:
aberration, distortion, optical_aberration
Meaning: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
Usage examples
These, to be sure, undergo no dream distortion.
Our next task is the investigation and the understanding of this dream distortion.
Dream distortion is lacking in these dreams, therefore they need no interpretation.
Dream distortion is the thing which makes the dream seem strange and incomprehensible to us.
And will you also keep in mind the fact that the amount of dream distortion is proportional to two factors.
In all other dreams except those of children and those of the infantile type, distortion, as we have said, blocks our way.
The dream censorship itself is the author, or one of the authors, of the dream distortion whose investigation now occupies us.
This peculiarity of the dream of pollution, as O. Rank has observed, makes it a fruitful subject to pursue in the study of dream distortion.
We can say at this point that dream distortion is the product of the dream work, that is, of the mental functioning of which the dream itself is the conscious symptom.
We also suspect that for the explanation of this distortion we shall need the psychoanalytic method which we could dispense with in the understanding of children's dreams.