Synecdoche, New York, and Dreams, Part 1

Synecdoche Defined:
n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). [sun-, syn-: "to take on a share of" + ekdekhesthai: "to understand" [ek- : "out of" + dekhesthai : "to take"]]

Charlie Kaufman is doing a LOT of interviews in support of his film, Synecdoche, New York. In one of them, Terry Gross of Fresh Air talks dream. Terry Gross is an awesome interviewer - and she was on Wait Wait ;):

Terry Gross: "I know you're very interested in dreams and how stories are told in dreams.
Do you follow images or structure from your own dreams?"

Charlie Kaufman: "I do think a lot about dreams and with Synecdoche, New York, I intentionally decided to try to structure it as a dream with dream logic and dream images - not that the movie is a dream."

Kaufman goes on to describe what interests him about his own dreams, besides finding them "kind of amazingly well written":

"What's also really interesting to me about dreams. Sometimes is that they're so structured that I keep the ending from myself until I get there - And I don't know how I do that. Sometimes there's a surprise ending and it makes sense. But I made it up - How do I lead myself to that without telling myself what the ending is? ... Very mysterious to me."

Have you had dreams like that - that carry you along in the story and surprise you at the end?
That seems totally magical. What a mighty creative force a dream is to tap into, huh?