Show Dreams and Hypnotism r It seemed to me that I had had a good illustration of how dreams are made Thero Ilrst comes to the mind some impression this may be a sensation sensa-tion from without sound an odor a ray of light some position of the dreamer or state of his system or perhaps per-haps only an Idea an impression left on the mind by the waking thoughts or drifted up from the great stream oi memories and associations that Hows ever beneath our consciousness Given this tlrst impression the mind of the dreamer seems forced by some logical necessity to account for it The impression im-pression takes on a form which calls lor some course of action and the action ac-tion is dramatized In a dream Sometimes Some-times as in the case given the problem prob-lem is simple and is solved at once Sometimes it Is complex the mind cannot can-not except after repeated trials make I anything of the first Impression and then we have those strange dreams where circumstances that puzzled the dreamer are at last fully explained Of course the commonest dream is that where no one impression Is strong enough to control and give unity and where the thoughts wander hither and thither disconnectedly My halfconscious state during this dreammaking Is like come stages In hypnotism and in Insanity where the patient is influenced by appearances that he knows to be false I went In imagination through the actions that would have been actually performed by hypnotic or Insane patients on the same suggestion They too often know they are dreaming but are under the dominion of the dream idea and must act In accordance with It From The Point of View In the Fiction Number Aucust of Scrlbners |