Dreams scandalize Valéry, yet at the same time excite him, since they lead him to take account of the restrictions weighing on his waking consciousness and to widen the sphere of intelligibility by exploring the apparently limitless combinations of an imaginative logic. Whereas in the Cahiers/Notebooks from 1914 Valéry pursues a very abstract reflection about the Rêve/Veille (Dream/Wakefulness) couple, he is at the same time sketching out the Jeune Parque poem whose genesis finds energy, inter alia, in the uncommon language and creative method characteristic of dream thought.