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THE MEANING OF DREAMS.

FASCINATING PAPER BY

TELEGRAPÉI,

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.

something that can, so to speak, carry on thinking while we are doing something else and even solve our problems for us. We can speak then of the mind as func- DRtioning at two levels, the surface

and the

right hand, he would not need to go into the line, yet he would not be accused of cowardice!

The Nightmare.

bandengina. We are tossed between U180 ra particular, he and his own

The dream in which the conillet. E L. ALLEN.

The paychoto round levels, or, in ends in failure is the nightmare, terminology, the The dream of being pursued by tho unconscious someone, while your feet grow "Dreams and their Meaning" conscious and

Harols.

Our waking life is lived heavior and heavier with every step was the subject dealt with in a fascinating paper by the Rev. Dr. largely though not so largely na is a very common one, especially being E. L. Allen, M.A., Ph.D., at the we link at the conscious level. In adolescenco. Without European Y.M.C.A., laat night whereas our dreams are the aeti dogmatic on the subject I would Huggest that the purquer in the when, under the auspices of thevity of the unconscious self.

um is the of The second conception is that dreum

man chasing the boy, Literary and Debating Society, he entertained a large gathering in the Conflict. Each of us in constantly the woman chasing the girl. The West Lounge, as well as radio is-eing made the battleground of two dreamer is awakening to the pos of manhood, to the sex- sibllitics or sets of sib teners, with his views on the sub-conflicting tendencies

he would like to ject.

the thing we want and the thing in onlarging self but cannot!

escape from From dividing dreams up into various categories, Dr. Alien went feel we ought to do, something

us drives in

of dream is that one direction, but cir

Another typo on to show how certain paychologi-s cal tests could be applied for the cumstances block up the road and in which the re-birth of the In- refuse to allow பர to travel down dividual is depicted. The symbols interpretation of their meanings and contended that when honestly cannot afford to do

A man wants to marry but he used for this are often those most ordinary life so, a woman familiar to us from and diligently searched for, the in-

craves for a mate but finds no one.

ane and sight into the meaning of dreams for whom she can really care.

"Althe very-day speech. They are

symbola of Are, water, chang brought people much nearer the grows up and there is

ing one's clothes and so on. Here conflict realities than the prejudices which within him between his sense of la a dream of re-birth in which the they fostered and the excuses which ant to his parents and his impulse Individual has attained to mastery they made during their waking

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

enches down to some extent to the inner self.

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?

Dr. Allen, in the course of bia address, mais in part:

If the question is asked, “Why do we dream?" the usual answer is Becnus of something wrong

digestive system. with our

was that tough beef, that boller pudding with which the cook hast intured in vain that was reaponai

for the whole odd business Certainly, there is something to

it. A

unconscious selt.

A Dream Described.

'I was in France, holding rank as A General, т went round the front line un tour of inspection, when I can now hazard a definition or an enemy attack commenced and I n description of the dream. The saw the German waves

approach- dream is the picture which the ing our trenches. Was I to with unconscious paints of one's life- draw, as my rank required, or to altuation, it being understood that stay and juin in the fighting?! that life-altuntion is viewed as the decided that I must take my part, self works in words, the scene

A of conflict. The

at least to begin with, and drawing my revolver began to fire on the In pictures. Hence the

enemy.'

Here the dreamer sees bhusel! character of the dream, reminding

n of a ve

a veritable 'Alice in Wonder-

command. as a General: he is in land' world. Our waking self in But a threatening situation arises capable of the most abrupt trans- and he has to make the choice bu

in thought: if introspection, you will be amused anfety.

you try little! tween facing it boldly and seeking He makes the more herele sometimes at the jumps your mind decision, though the qualification

.M.C.A. to the taste makes from the lounge of the at least for a time suggests that of animon the process of re-adjustment to life and then to the problem of immor- is not yet quito complete.

thinge to represent jumps in pictures and your average dream will appear sober in com. parlaon

such a contention, but it is by no means the whole truth. No would say that the drawing of the curtains at the theatre in the cause of the play which follows. It mere-tality! Try ly creates the situation in which ty 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 s stream, but the dream itself is due to quite other factors.

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

спнися.

Not Easily Understood.

The subject of numbers and names in dreams is a very fascinat- Starting

from that description of ing one. Thus, I dreamed rot the dream. one can divide dreams long ago that a £10 note was hand- into several categories. Four of ed to me, with the number 58J49. in the dream in which the conflict in case you get the number 12, these suggest themselves. There Add 6 to 8 and 4 to 9 and in each fought through to a victorious con- obviously the symbol of something clusion. There is the dream in worthless, if not even injuricus. which it is given up and defeat There are dreams which seem to in offer us a measure of guidance; There in the dream which we escape from it by Imagin-they contain suggestions from the THE EUROPE HOTEL||, after he had been for ing that it is all over, while in unconscious as to how our pro-

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in his dream the following nightmet and to see how exactly where he shion direct his plek in order to be able to deal with it.

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But it is equally correct to say that we tend to dream of what we have tried to keep out of our minds during the day. Thus, shell-shock

is gura. Thus the Arctic explorer she snatched up a couple of nuit. patients during the war tried to

dreams of warm fires and plates cases and ran to the station, only forget that there was such a thing of roast beef or plum pudding! to sec

train disappearing as as a war on, they refused to read

There are two more involved cases she stepped on to the platform. the newspapers or to allow their minds to go back to their expert-of this type of dream which may be The meaning of the dream is that ences at the Front, only to find interest. The first is an amus she has been no busy with her

finding one.

Freud tella of a medical many interests that she lias missed that these experiences revived dar 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 avery which would take her through life tensity. Indeed, the whole theory morning by his landlady. One day to a destination. Let her cut out 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

you stead of getting the train! which we repress by day but which Get up at once. Mr. So-and so, you

have to be at the hospital by 9 There is no enay road to the re-assert themselves by night. Whereupon he dreamed that he understanding of the dream, a certain technique, Psychological Conceptions, was in hospital ne a patient, and needs

to cultivate honesty with saying to himself. Well, if I am needs also to Before we can really deal with in-

in hospital already, I don't need to ones

oneself if one

one is to understand dividual dreams and their interpre- tation, there are two psychological get up to go there he turned over one's own dreams, for the revela conceptions to which must intra-in France dreamert that his right very painful one indeed.

and went to sleep again. A soldier then they provide is sometimes

But to see you. The arst is that of the hand had been ent off. What did have some insight into the meaning Цисописісня. You try to recall that mean? It meant that there of one's dreams is to be able to see name but it refuses to come up in

get was a conflict within him between uneself in a quite new light,

the reall- your memory. You feel you have the impulse to self-preservation and indeed much nearer to almost 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 minute! This shows that it is possible for something to be in your mind. na we say, but not pre- sent to your consciousness. In other words, there is in us a store- -house of hidden memories. Again, Archimedes long ago was working at a problem in physics. Think it

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