Psychoanalysis

reams I have mentioned contradict the wide-spread

ater and finally start swimming, only adds one more pleasant featur

ion was not meant to awaken me, but on the contrary to keep me asleep by explaining away the tickling sensation an

een designated as

d up a convenient explanation around that unpleasant stimulus. Our wish to urinate is either represented as gratified or we are shown the impossibility of gratifying it

tion, the nature of which I soon guess. If I succeed in assuaging my thirst by means of a dream that I am drinking, I need not wake up in order to satisfy that need. The dream substitutes itself for action, as elsewhere in life. This same dream recently appeared in modified form. On this occasion I became thirsty before going to bed and emptied the glass of water which stood on a chest near my

ght a woman patient h

iddle of a lake and upset the cano

e up sh

ly a convenience dream, which endeavoured to explain away the chilliness of the night through an appropriate scene. When the unavoidabl

ltiplied, tend to show that the dream, far from bei

he sleeper to awake and it visualizes many reasons for not ex

se connection between the image conjured up by the dream work and th

eam made use of some experience or observation of the previous waking