Dreams.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 16, 16 April 1913, Page 56

Dreams.

Lecturing on Freud’s theory of dreams to the Listerian Society at ‘King’s College Hospital, Dr. William Brown, head of the Psychological department of King’s Cololege, supported the idea that every dream is the fulfilment of some wish. In the great majority- of cases the wish, he said, was one that had been repressed by the waking consciousness, and its fulfilment in the dream was disguised according to rules that were both 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 early Childhood. “Recently, while working for a medical examination, which if was most important I should pass and for which I had bee.n able to find very little time for preparation, I dieamt that someone showed me the examination papers. Not until some days after the dream did 1 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 hud received 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.”