Lancet-Clinic Volume 110, No. 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... use of the memories of one annoyance to protect me from the other. Before bringing this paper to a close, I must refer again to the role of the sensory stimulus in the dream. Such stimuli when they are present merely determine the direction the dream takes in its lightning-like search for dream material likely to prove useful in the expression of the dream wish. As an instance, a hot-water bottle at the feet will not cause a dream of weary wandering over a hot desert, unless such an idea is easily available in the psychological storehouse of the dreamer; and not even then without there be present adequate and recent associations to such a group of ideas going to form the dream. Such associations should have been found the evening before the dream, or at least within a clay or two prior. Otherwise the hot-water bottle might cause a dream of inquisitatorial torture, or perhaps no dream at all--merely waking the sleeper. In closing I will cite, in illustration of the role of the sensory stimulus, a dream--again one of my own. because I know of no example in the literature representing any more remarkable assimilation of such stimuli, and particularly since I subjected the dream to a complete analysis and found that in this respect it did not differ from any other of the type of dream originating apparently de novo. The dream was as follows: / was transported to the days and a scene of my youth; perhaps about nine years of age, and on the broad lawn in front of the housp where I spent my childhood. My uncle C. was there, and he pointed a rifle at me. There uns a brilliant flash of light tliat seemed to fill the whole dream picture, and a report. / felt that I had been shot in the middle of the forehead, and called for help, but immediately I put my hand to my ...