SLEEP AND DREAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1938, Page 12

SLEEP AND DREAMS.

LAST NIGHT'S LECTURE. "Sleep is the withdrawing of consciousness; it is one of Nature's greatest blessings," said Sister Evans in a lecture on the subject of sleep and dreams at the Lewis Eady Hall to a large and appreciative audience last evening. To-day. she said, writers of tinkeenest intellectual attainment were giving attention to dream symbolism. Sigmund Freud, of Vienna, was the first to arouse a scientific interest in dream psychology and demonstrate a new method. Some dreams were wish fulfilments; that is, they fulfilled wishes impossible of accomplishment during waking hours. Everyone dreamed, but everyone did not bring their dreams through into the waking consciousness. The best way to cultivate this was first to desire to remember dreams, and second, to endeavour to remember them. Some people had prophetic dreams and many had instructive dreams. The night mind, said the lecturer, could gather much knowledge. The ancients said, "The night time of the body is the day time of the soul." In other words, the night mind, being relieved of the day mind, assumed great powers.