WHEN YOU DREAM.
In a lecture on "The Psychology of I Dreams," at Leeds, Professor Strong re-' marked that it was still a popular belief that dreams were prophetic, and to-day dream books were sold in thousands pretending to give the significance of various kinds of dreams.
He had bought one of these, from which he learned that to dream you were eating tripe meant that your body was out of order; to dream of vinegar was a good omen, This, of course, was rubbish. Freud's theory was that all dreams were the fulfilment of a wish. Though this required modification, it was the true explanation, the Professor thought of many more dreams than we commonly realised.
He instanced the fact that Arctic explorers and hungry children dreamt of banquets and the unclothed child of silk and fineries.
The new school of psychology thought that there was no such thing as a dream without significance, but he would not identify himself with that attitude.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 17
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