THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1913. DREAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 October 1913, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1913. DREAMS.

Everybody, more or less, is subject to dreams. Some dream of wealth; others • of position and power ; a few of racehorses. But nobody seems to dream exaotly what he desires to dream. Professor Sigmund Fiend, of Vienna, _wlio is one of the greatest modern psychologists, states that "every dream is a wish." This is a declaration that few people will readily confirm. For instance, the man who dreams that he is being pursued by wild animals, and the man who dreams that he has fallen over a cliff, and awakens "to find that he has tumbled out of bed, can hardly be expected to have wished for such experiences. However,, a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette avers that the dream intelligence deals in symbols. For example, we may symbolise a wiah to travel by dreaming of a railway train; just as in the same way we may symbolise the immortal wish to he great and important by dreaming that we are Generals, or Princes, or Cabinet Ministers. But there are, wishes less praiseworthy, formed by the lower mind, hut kept in order, and repressed while we are awake. Usually, Pven in sleep, a guardian at the ivcvv gates repels them and turns them bark, Only when injudicious

food, or some casual fever, has perturbed the general intelligence, and so given more play to the lower mind, then all our disagreeable wishes oorne out, Rymbolised in various unpleasant forms. Or, if nightmares are not ignoble ambitions, mean desires, and envy, hatred and malice, expressed in fantastic masks, they may be some bad inheritance from primitive man. This gentleman is very active in l)r Frend's theories. Ho is overlaid by the mind of experience, of civilisation, of education—but though repressed, he is never suppressed, and part of our nightly dreaming, good or bad, may always be attributable to his gambols. Another source of inspiration is our own child mind. Frend maintains that the complete analysis of every dream will always reveal some Infantile iinpr ssion of memory. Thus he explains the conraon dream experience of walking about insufficiently dressed while the dreamer often has only a slight emban-as&ment, and no one else in the dream seems embarrassed at all. This we #re to take as an infantile dream memory, dating from the time when we were customarily bathed or dressed by our eMem, and were rather happier than otherwise in the absence of clothes. This .dream is 'fulfilling an uncons«pmis wish of our infantile mind—in spit* of the fact t|hat it embaraases our more educated civilised mind. Then every afte.r-*Bemory, chains of thought, contradictions of thought, goes towards composing the a-bsurd images and impo6siH3y dramatic visions of the night. Every dream goes back to childhood. livery dream also holds some memory of the past twen-ty-four hours. So a young woman dreamed in nightmare that a bottle waltzed her on broken eggshells, while from its top a great fi*h gazed with.melancholy, reproachful eyes. Primitive won an may have been responsible—bnt she confessed to supping on the extraordinary mixture of whitebait fritters and eggnog. .