The manifest content can be interpreted as the information that the consciously individual remembers experiencing.
The manifest content consists of the plot of a dream at the surface level.
Freud believed that every dream contained manifest and latent content.
One more distinction is between the manifest contents (of communication) and its latent meaning.
She knew now who it was about; the feeling, though not the manifest content, of last night's nightmare came back in full force.
In the case of manifest content there is no real problem.
What's, how do we establish the connection between the manifest content of the dream and the latent?
Well, in the first place you don't of course, because the, the manifest content may be totally innocent.
Freud's theory describes dreams as having both manifest and latent content.
Modern analysts use the manifest content to understand the patient's unconscious.