Psychoanalysis

ut to dream from the very second when we close

eam," some one

y times or a hundred times in one night. Repeat the experiment as many nights as your constitution wi

me very striking idea came to my mind yesterday afternoon, I am likely to be em

fferent from our waking thoughts, and that unless they have a special meaning

. Thousands of futile dreams dreamt in one night may not leave a deeper impression on our

y a proposition which I have discussed at length in Psychoana

n. Emotions, secretions and attitudes may be studied separately for the sake of convenience, but in reality there cannot be any emotion which is not unavoidably

ind when we attempt to answer the

nds seek refuge in them? If they are purely psychic phenom

ay at times conjure up anxiety visions in which heavy masses oppress us, or that long continence

on dream may be a pleasurable visualization of relief, leading to continued sleep and, in another, an anxiety episode, picturing frustrated gratification and ending in an unpleasan

kes libidinous visions, in anothe

ms and his physical condition, invalidates any theory which would revert more or less literally to t

ous attempt at deciphering the enigma of dream thoughts, had various experiments per

trils. He dreamt that a mask of pitch was applied

uck with a metallic object. He heard the tolling of

to his nose. He dreamt of the

s nostrils. He dreamt that he was on

ted the application of a blister and e

the house and were compelling the inmates to reveal where

ributed them to some people with wh

is forehead. He dreamt that he was in It

ggested to him

was a revolutionist, arrested, tried

dream leaves no doubt as to the direct relation between the two. On the other hand, the reader will notice that the same stimuli a

and that branches and leaves were brushing against my face. I made an effort to p

rfume was held op

es carrying grips were hurrying toward the right where there seemed to be open

stroked with a

ered rather indifferently and went on my way. Then I saw either the other writer or myself seated before a window an

vised a manuscript for a woman and al

was applied

owing; I tried to turn up my ove

that of a building in front of which stood very white marble columns standing on a background of intense black. On another occasion extremely bright green snakes hung from trees, the space between the snakes being very dark. On another occasion he was talking to a girl who declares herself to be "int

This explains the phenomenon of adaptation to stimuli. People whose bedroom is near some source of regular constant noise can sleep in

ere closely related to experiences of the day before

by the light flashes to express itself through

gans or an inner secretion, is interpreted by the sleeper according to the ideas which d

d Pythagoras' warning against eating beans. It is not the stimulus that counts; it is the end result

ever carry out his brilliant ideas if he could not draw

y among the ignorant to attribute a war to some superficial, visible cause, disagreement, insult, inva