WISH REALISED IN DREAM.
PLEASANT ILLUSION OF THE * NIGHT’S SLEEP.
Lecturing on Freud’s theory of dreams to the Listerian Society at Ring’s College Hospital, Dr. William Brown, head of the psychological department of King’s College, supported the idea that every dream is the fulfilment of some wish. In the great majority of cases the wish, 110 said, was one that had been repressed by the waking consciousness and its fulfilment in the dream was disguised according to rules that were botli complicated and diverse. As a general rule the memories most commonly aroused in dreams were those of the “dream day” (the day before the dream), and those of earlv childhood. Actual bodily disturbances, either of the external senseorgans, where, when not too intense, incorporated in the dream, though in a disguised form. 111 this wav every dream might be regarded as fulfilling at least one wish—the wish to go on sleeping. “Recently, while working for a medical examination, which it was most important I should pass and for which I had been able to find very little time for preparation, I dreamt that someone showed me the examination papers. Not until some days after the dream did I realise its true significance and its connection with my intense desire to‘pass. "•On another occasion, while anxiously waiting for the appearance of certain reviews which I had written for a daily newspaper I dreamt that I had recived yet another batch of books from the same source. This dream was evidently a slightly indirect fulfilment of my wish that the other reviews had not miscarried and would shortly appear.” ' 1
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3777, 12 March 1913, Page 8
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269WISH REALISED IN DREAM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3777, 12 March 1913, Page 8
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