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THE MEANING OF DREAMS.
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
the
right hand, he would not need to` go into the line, yet he would not bo accused of cowardico!
The Nightmare.
something that can, so to speak, carry on thinking while we are doing something else and even solve our problems for us. We can Apoak then of the mind as func-
The dream in which the conflict FASCINATING. PAPER BY DR. tioning at two levels, the surface
E. L. ALLEN.
and the underground levels, er. in uuds in failure is the nightmare. the paychological terminology, the The dream of being pursued by the unconscious someone, while your feet grow "Dreams and their Meaning" conscious and
levels. Our waking life is lived nonvier and heavier with avery step was the subject dealt with in a
a very common one, especially fascinating paper by the Rev. Dr. largely though not so largely as
adolescence. Without being Bà la. Allen, M.A., Ph.D., at the we think-at the conscious level.dogmatic on the subject I would European Y.M.C.A, last night whereas our dreams are the
suggest that the pursuer in thre when, under the auspicca of the vity of the unconscious self.
dream The
that of eam is the man chasing the boy, Literary, and Debating Society, he
second conception is Conflict, entertained a large gathering
Each of us is constantly the woman chasing the girl. The is awakening the pon West Lounge, as well as radio lis-being made the battleground of two dreamer
sibilities of manhood, to the Bex- or sets of tenera, with his views on the aul conflicting tendencies
bendencies, We are tossed between urge in ject.
From dividing dreams up into the wine to do, something in enlarging self
the thing we want and the thing we escape from various categories, Dr. Allen wentus driven in one direction, but cir- on to show how certain psychologicamstances block up the rond and cal tests could be applied for the refuse to allow us to travel down interpretation of their meaning it. A man wants to marry but he and contended that when honestly and diligently searched for, the In- sight into the meaning of dreams brought people much nearer the realities than the prejudices which they fostered and the excuses which they made during their waking lives.
Mr. J. H. Hunt. O.B.E., presided and introduced the speaker, while the lecture was broadcast from Z.B.W.
Why Do We Dream?
ho
Particulny
would like to
and his own but cannot i Another type of dream is that in which the re-birth of the in- used for this are often those most Jividual is depicted. The symbols familiar to us from ordinary life
cannot afford to do ne, a woman craves for a mate but finds no one and every-day speech. They are for whom she can really care. A the symbols of fire, water, chang at grows up and there is a confifeting one's clothes and so on. Here within him between his sense of in a dream of re-birth in which the duty to his parents and his impulse individual has attained to mastery to freedom. Such a conflict alway-over his circumstances and his own reaches down to some extent to the inner self. unconscious sett
A Dream Described.
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I was in France, holding rank as General. I went round the front line on a tour of inspection, when I can now hazard a definition or an enemy attack commenced and a description of the dream. The saw the German waves approach- with- dream in the picture which the ing our trenches. Won I to Dr. Allen, in the course of his anconscious paints of one's life- draw, us my rank required, or to address, said in part:
situation, it being understood that stay and join in the fighting? that life-situation la viewed as the decided that I must take my part, If the question is asked, "Why
scene of a conflict. The conscious at least to begin with, and drawing do we dream? the usual anawer
the dream.my revolver began to fire on the Is Because of something wrong self worka in words.
in pictures. Hence the bizarre enemy. with our digestive system. IL
character
of the dream, reminding Here the dreamer sees himself was that tough beef, that boilers of a veritable Alice In Wouder as a General: he is in command. pudding, with which the cook had and world. Our waking self is But a threatening situation arises laboured in vain that was responsi- ble for the whole odd business apable of the most abrust transi- and he has to make the choice be- tions in thought: If you try a little tween facing it boldly and necking Certainly, there is
something in introspection, you will be amused safety. He makes the more herole such a contention, but it is by no
Hornetimes at the jumps your mind decision, though the qualification means the whole truth. No one
makes from the lounge of the at least for a time' suggests that Y.M.C.A. to the taste of salmon the process of re-adjustment to life and then to the problem of immor-is not yet quite complete.
to represent those jumps in pictures and your averago dream will appear saber in com- parison1
would say that the drawing of the curtains at the theatre is the cause of the play which fallowA, It merrtality! Try ly creates the situation in which The scenery and the waiting actors become visible to the audience and in which those actors are able to proceed with the play. So it may well be that certain bodily condi. tions provide the opportunity for dream, but the dream itself is due to quite other factors.
It is sometimes aid that we dream of what has been on our minds during the day. A Welsh miner one told me that it was a by no means uncommon thing for
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The subject of numbers names in dreams is a very taseinst- Starting from that description of ing one. Thus, I dreamed the dream, one can divide dreams long ago that a £10 note was und into several categories. Four of led to me, with the number 38449, these suggest themselves. There Add 6 to 8 and 4 to 9 and in ench in the dream in which the conflict is
J2. you get the number fought through to a victorinus conubriously the symbol of something clusion. There is the dream in worthless, if not even injurious. which it is given up and defeat There are dreams which seem te
nt In offer ensues. There is the dream
usa mensure of guidance: which we escape from it by imaginthey contain suggestions from the pra ing that it in all over, while in unconscious as to how our
it! And finally, there is the concerned dream which represents to ns the dreamed once that she had to catch actunt cours of the conflict as train.
She was standing in u room, the floor of which was litter- something still undecided.
It will be most convenient toed with thousand and one things take the third class first. These which she
take with her. wanted to are what
There is something into various suit-cases. glancing that we tend to dream of what we which we want by day but cannot every now and again at the clock. time going. have tried to keep out of pur minds get and in the night we Imagine At length, seeing the during the day. Thus, shell-shock
is oura. Thus the Arctic explorer she anatched up a couple of suit- patients during the war tried tv dreams of warm res and plates enses and ran to the station, only forget that there was such a thing of roa
roast beef
during the day by some particularly sbstinate bit in the conl-seam to visualise the whole situation afresh in his dream the following night! and to see now exactly where he should direct his pick in order to be able to deal with it
over.
funny
A lady activities
But it is equally correct to say ment known as wish-tuin- Feverishly she tried to thrust them i
more involved cases
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AR WAT on. they refused to read ! There are for plum pudding to see the train disappearing as the stepped on to the platform. the newspapers or to allow their of this type of dream which may be The meaning of the dream is that minda to go back to their experi-of interest. The first is an amus she has been so busy with her
ences at the Front. onlyed dur
the impulse to self-preservation and deed much nearer to
to the
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to find ing nae.
Trend tells
of a
a medical many interests that she has missed that these experiences
student who was very fond of his the one thing needful, something ing the night with a terrifying in- bed and had to be roused every
very which would take her through life tensity. Indeed, the whole theory morning by his landlady. One day in a destination. Let her cut vat of the dream turns on this fact that she knocked at the door and said. some of them and concentrate in- there are wishes and memories Get up at once. Mr. So-and so, you stead of getting the train! which we repress by day but which have to be at the hospital by There is no easy road re-assert themselves by night.
Whereupon he dreamed that he understanding of the dream. a certain technique, Psychological Conceptions was in hospital as a patient, and needs
oneself
15 10 understand Before we enn really deal with in-saving to himself. Well, if I am needs also to cultivate honesty with
if one is 10 in hospital already, I don't need to dividual dreams and their interpre tation, there are two paychological get up to go there! he turned over one's own dreams, for the revsin- and went to sleep again. A soldier tion they provide is sometimes a conceptions to which I must intru-in France dreamed that his right very painful one indeed. But to duce you. The first is that of the
hand had been cut off. What did have some insight into the meaning Unconscious. You try to recall a name but it refuses to come up in that mean? It meant that thereof one's dreams is to be able to see quite new light, to get was a conflict within him betweenuself in your memory. You feel you have almust got it, there is something in your consciousness that reminds you of it, and you say. It's on the tip of my tongue; I shall get in A minate? This shows that it is possible for something to be In your mind, as we say, but not pre- Hent to your consciousness. In other words, there is in us a store. house of hidden memeries, Avain. Archimedes long ago was working at a problem in phyales. Think it could 18 he might, he nat 21:0 The solution. Then, just as he was stepping into the bath, so the story goes, it flashed on him, and shouting in wild excite- ment, I have found it! I have found it he rushed out. So that this hidden part of ourselves is
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MR. GAZINKUC' HOUSE İN- STEAD OF DELIVERIN' IT! ITS SAVED ME A TRIP,
SEE?
hin sense of duty. In the dreamies than the prejudices we foster he ingined a situation whicbind the excuses we make daring' would relieve him from the strain ur waking life will ever allow us of the conflict: having Just his to get.
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