This thesis is concentrated around the dreams of the main protagonist of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The main goal is to provide a narratological analysis of the hero's four dreams. In order to achieve that, this paper is virtually divided into two parts. The first part is a theoretical one and it deals with dreams in Dostoevsky's literary works, more specifically the questions of why and how is the technique of a dream employed as well as what its significance is. This is followed by a short introduction to the discipline of narratology and its aspects relevant for this analysis. These include the concepts of the narrator, perspective and the dynamics of the narrative. As far as the perspective is concerned the analysis explores the issues of focalization, the kinds of perception as well as its channels, while the dynamics of the narrative is usually explored through its transformations. The second part of the thesis is a more analytical one and it concentrates on Raskolnikov's four dreams. After a short description of each dream, its existing interpretations are presented. This is followed by a narratological analysis through the aforementioned aspects. At the very end of the thesis, the question of the importance of dreams in Crime and Punishment is explored and some conclusions are brought as a result of the analysis.