Julio tells his therapist that he dreamt of a large blue monster that was about to eat him. his therapist interpreted this dream as representing julio's abusive father. according to dream analysis, the manifest content is

The blue monster would be the manifest content. This type of content is the part of the dream that the person actually experiences and can be used to link to something in the person's past or present. In this case, since Julio's dream contained the large monster, this would be the manifest content.