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THE MEANING OF DREAMS.

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.

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something that can, so to speak, right hand, he would not need to carry on thinking while we are go into the line, yet he would not doing something else and even solve ba accused of cowardice our problems for us. We can

The Nightmare speak then of the mind no func-

The dream in which the conflict FASCINATING PAPER BY DR. tioning at two levels, the surface

and the underground levels, or, in ends in failure is the nightmare. E. L. ALLEN.

the

psychological terminology, the The dream of being pursued by the unconscious someone, while your feet grow "Dreams and their Meaning" conscious and was the subject dealt with in a levels. Our waking life is lived heavier and heavier with every step fascinating paper by the Rev. Dr. largely-though not so largely ass a very common one, especially. adolescence. Without being E. L. Allen, MA., Ph.D., at the we think-nt the conscious level. European Y.M.C.A., last night whereas our dreams are the acti- dogmatic on the subject. I would suggest that the pursuer in the when, under the auspices of the vity of the unconscious self.

the man chasing the boy. Literary and Debating Society, he The second conception in that of dream entertained a large gathering in the Conflict. Each of us is constantly the woman chasing the girl. The to the pos West Lounge, as well as radio labelng made the battleground of two dreamer

of sibilities or acts of

to the sex- manho teners, with his views on the sub-conflicting tendencies Ject.

bendencies. We are tossed between urge in particular, he would like to From dividing dreams up into the thing we want and the thing we escape from destiny and his own

in enlarging self but cannot! various categories, Dr. Allen went feel we ought to do, something in

Another type of dream is that on to show how certain psychologi-118 drives in one direction, but cir cal teats could be applied for the cumstances block up the ronil and in which the re-birth of the in- refuse to allow us to travel down dividual is depicted. The symboln interpretation of their meanings ret

A man wants to marry but he used for this are often those most life and contended that when honestly cannot afford to do so, a woman familiar to us from ordinary and diligently searched for, the in-

craves for a mate but finds no one and overy-day speech. They are sight into the meaning of dreams brought people much nearer the whom she can really care. A the symbols of arc, water, chang- realities than the prejudices which led grows up and there is a conflicting one's clothes and so on. Here within him between his sense of is a dream of re-birth in which the they fostered and the excuses which

luty to his parents and his impulse individual kas attained to mastery they rande during their waking

to Freedom. Such a conflict always over his circumstances and his own lives.

huner reaches down to some extent to the

self. unconscious self,

Mr. J. H. Hunt, O.B.E., presided and introduced the speaker, while the lecture was broaucast from Z.B. W.

Why Do We Dream?

It.

A Dream Described.

I can now hazard a definition or a description of the dream. The dream is the picture which the

I was in France, holding rank an 4 General. I went round the front line on a tour of inspection, when an enemy attack commenced and i saw the German waven approach- ing our trenches. Was to with-

Dr. Allen, in the course of his unconscious paints of one's life-draw, as my rank required, or to bukdress, said in part:

If the question is asked, 'Why do we dream?' the usual answer la Because of something wrong with our digestive system. was that tough beef, that boiled ddling with which the corale Jared laboured in vain that was responsi ble for the whole odd business

ituation, it being understood that stay and join in the fighting? that life-situation is viewed as the decided that I must take my part. scene of a conflict. The conscious at least to begin with, and drawing self works in words, the dream.my revolver began to fire on the tin pictures. Hence the bizarre enemy."

character of the dream, reminding Here the dreamer sees himself

os af a veritable Aller in Wonders as a General: be in in command land' world. Our waking selfie But a threatening situation arises capable of the most abrupt trnost- and he has to make the choice be tions in thought: if you try a little tween facing it boidly and seeking

Certainly, there is te mein by an introspection, you will be anised safety, in muke e qualifention

such a contention, but it no means the whole truth. No n would say that the drawing of the curtains at tlik theatre is the cause of the play which follows. It merr by crentes the situation in which the scenery and the waiting Returs 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 cond fions provide the opportunity for dream, but the dream itself in dur to quite other factors,

at jumps your mind decision, though the maken 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 tality! Try and then to the problem of immor-is not yet quite complete.

to represent those jumps in pictures and your average dream will appear sober in com parlanni

one.

Not Easily Understood. The subject of numbers and names in dreams is a very fascinal- Starting from that description of ing

Thus, I dreamed rot the dream, one can divide dreams long ago that a 210 note was band- into several categories. Four of ed to me, with the number 38949. those suggest themselves. There Add & to 8 and 4 to 9 and in each 12. the number is the dream in which the conflict in case you get fought through to a victorious con- obviously 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 to ensues. There is the dream in offer us a measure of guidance:

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It is sometimes said that dream of what has been on our minds during the day. A Welsh miner once told me that it was a

ing that it is all over, while in ancunscious as to

pro. him, after he had been held 5:1

A Indy ality it is raging na fiercely በዶ hlems might be solved. during the day by some particularly | 20 And finally, there

in is the concerned over.

activities mbeliante bit in the conf-xcum, lo

dream visualise the whole situation afresh actual course

which represents to us the dreamed once that she had to catch

of the conflict an in his dream the following night something still underided.

a train. She was standing is room, the floor of which was litter- and to see now exactly where he

It will be most convenient toed with a thousand and one things should direct his plek in order to

take the third class first. These which she wanted to take with her. be able to deal with it.

are what is known as wish-fulfil- Feverishly she tried to thrust them But it is equally correct to say men drenans. 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. have tried to keep out of our munda

get and in the night we imagine it At length, seeing the time going, during the day. Thus, shell-shock patients during the war tried to ours. Thus the Arctic explorer she snatched up a couple of suit- dreams of warm Gres and plates cases and ran to the station, only forget that there was such a thing of roast beef or plum pudding! to see the trair disappearing as as a war on, they refused to read There are two more lavolved cases she 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, only to finding one. Frend tells of a medien many interests that she has missed that there experiences revived dur ing the night with a terrifying in-student who was very fond of his the one thing needful, something bed and had to be roused every which would take her through life tensity. Indeed, the whole theory morning by his landindy. One day to a destination. Let her cut out of the dream turns on this fact that she knocked at tire door and said. same of them and concentrate in- there are wishes and memories Get up at once. Mr. So-and so, you stead of

of getting the train! which we repress by day but which have to be at the hospital by 9! There is no easy road to the resaverf. Themselves by night.

Whereupon be dreamed that he understanding of the dream. was in hospital as a patient, and needs a certain technique, one saving to himself. Well, if I am needs also to cultivate honesty with Before we can really deal with in-in hospital already, I don't need to oneself if one is to understand dividual dreams and their interpreget up to go there! he turned over one's own

the revela- dreams, for tation, there are two psychological and went to sleep again. A soldier tion they provide is sometimes conceptions to which I must intron France dreamed that his right very painful one indeed. But to due. you. The first is that of the hand had been ent off. What did have some insight into the menning Unconscious. You try to recall n

that mean? It meant that thereof one's dreams is to be able to see name but it refuses to vonu, up în in

WRS conflict within him between neself to a quite new light, to get your memory. You feel you have

the impulse to self-preservation and indeed much nearer to the reali almost got it, there is something

Psychological Conceptions.

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in your consciousness that reminds is senter of duty. In the dreamies than the prejudices we foster situation which and the excusen we make during you of It, and you say, 'It's on thee imusined

would relieve him from the strain our waking life will ever allow us tip my tongue? I shoff get in

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