Psychoanalysis

almost every one has had at least once, such as dreams of falling o

hinking along certain lines and to use

certain definite grooves too; but we must remember that no symbol has an absolute mea

han their content which is important psychologically. And it is the type of man who dreams

e tyranny of the law of gravity and enjoy the freedom which winged creatures enjoy. All races have wished to fly and that desire,

games, rocking, see-sawing; Federn has seen in them a symbol of

ism of a different so

feel to be higher than the waking level, to which on awakening, we fall painfully. Variations in the sleep depth would thus account for the frequent relation of sequence which is o

ldren," Freud writes, "have fallen occasionally and then been picked up and fondled; if

s only an insignific

ing dream is found upon a

such a thought in the dreamer's mind. Not a few falling dreams transform themselves after a slight period of anxiety into flying dreams, thus indicating that the feeli

s the awakening due to some physical stimulus, noise, light, pain, etc., which is fo

y. This symbolism is rather apt, for the awakening lowers us from the free and irresponsible estate of the dream crea

mpression of being mangled or k

dying when compelled to return to reality. Such a type is more dangerously attached to

ncies. The slang of many languages has established a connection which ca

o childish attitudes and memories of the years when the first teeth fell out and

d be made. I have observed several cases in which such dreams revealed the presence of root abscesses causing absolutely no c

Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed; all the gods and goddesses of the ancient religions were unclothed; even in our days academic

dreams as a return to infantilism, as a

lk across a drawing room or appear on a street naked or half unclothed, no one seems to notice us. We generally try to hide or t

be inclined to consider them in almost every case as symbolic dreams of attitudes. We are labouring under the burden of some secret which we are afraid of revealing. In spite o

osed, and which we awkwardly try to wrap up in our shirt tails or to conceal under a table cloth or behind furniture or bushes. We are conceal

by some analysts as a memory of the first event of our life, when we were forced violently, painfully, through a narrow passage and finally reached the

cide with the solution of a crisis and indicate that an adaptat

incomplete motions. Sleep walkers, like ordinary dreamers, performed in their somnambulistic states actions which they have refrained from performing in

die Fran?aise and by Krafft-Ebing,

et up at night, go to

h writing. When he had finished, he would read over his manuscript aloud and repeat correctly, while

e into it several times; after which he returned to his cell. The next morning the monk told the prior of a terrible dream he had had. The prior had killed the monk's

a singleness of purpose, a concentration of at

t he generally obeys without waking, all commands

r the purposes of his dream with his eyes closed, but noises and colli

ion between moonlight and sleep walking

ches at the end of his book

like the dream, the fulfilment of secret, forbidden wishes, first of the present, behind which, however, infantile wish

be claimed to be that the sleepwalker, male or female, would climb into bed with the loved object as in childhood.

with the beloved person, sometimes even puts on his cl

o experience all sorts of forbidden things, because it cannot be held accountable for what it does 'unconsciously in its sleep.' The same c

leep walkers exhibit a heightened muscular irritability and muscle erotic, the endogenous excitement of which can compensate for the giving up of the rest in bed. In accordanc

little symptoms of hysteria as of epilepsy; yet the

the hand of a beloved parent. Fixed gazing upon

and moon walking may be permanently cu