The World of Dreams

The House of Dreams--Fallacies in the Study of Dreams--Is it possible to Study Dreams?--How Fallacies may be Avoided--Do we always Dream during Sleep?--The Two Main Sources of D...

The Spontaneous Procession of Dream Imagery--Its Kaleidoscopic Character--Attention in Dreams--Relation of Drug Visions and Hypnagogic Imagery to Dreaming--Colour in Dreams--The...

All Dreaming is a Process of Reasoning--The Fundamental Character of Reasoning--Reasoning as a Synthesis of Images--Dream Reasoning Instinctive and Automatic--It is also Conscio...

All Dreams probably contain both Presentative and Representative Elements--The Influence of Tactile Sensations on Dreams--Dreams excited by Auditory Stimuli--Dreams aroused by O...

Emotion and Imagination--How Stimuli are transformed into Emotion--Somnambulism--The Failure of Movement in Dreams--Nightmare--Influence of the approach of Awakening on imagined...

Dreams of Flying and Falling--Their Peculiar Vividness--Dreams of Flying an Alleged Survival of Primeval Experiences--Best explained as based on Respiratory Sensations combined...

The Dramatisation of Subjective Feelings Based on Dissociation--Analogies in Waking Life--The Synaesthesias and Number-forms--Symbolism in Language--In Music--The Organic Basis...

Mental Dissociation during sleep--Illustrated by the Dream of Returning to School Life--The Typical Dream of a Dead Friend--Examples--Early Records of this Type of Dream--Analys...

The Apparent Rapidity of Thought in Dreams--This Phenomenon largely due to the Dream being a Description of a Picture--The Experience of Drowning Persons--The Sense of Time in D...

The House of Dreams--Fallacies in the Study of Dreams--Is it Possible to Study Dreams?--How Fallacies may be Avoided--Do we always Dream during Sleep?--The Two Main Sources of D...

The Spontaneous Procession of Dream Imagery--Its Kaleidoscopic Character--Attention in Dreams--Relation of Drug Visions and Hypnagogic Imagery to Dreaming--Colour in Dreams--The...

All Dreaming is a Process of Reasoning--The Fundamental Character of Reasoning--Reasoning as a Synthesis of Images--Dream Reasoning Instinctive and Automatic--It is also Conscio...

All Dreams probably contain both Presentative and Representative Elements--The Influence of Tactile Sensations on Dreams--Dreams excited by Auditory Stimuli--Dreams aroused by O...

Emotion and Imagination--How Stimuli are transformed into Emotion--Somnambulism--The Failure of Movement in Dreams--Nightmare--Influence of the approach of Awakening on imagined...

Dreams of Flying and Falling--Their Peculiar Vividness--Dreams of Flying an Alleged Survival of Primeval Experiences--Best explained as based on Respiratory Sensations combined...

The Dramatisation of Subjective Feelings Based on Dissociation--Analogies in Waking Life--The Synaesthesias and Number-forms--Symbolism in Language--In Music--The Organic Basis...

Mental Dissociation during Sleep--Illustrated by the Dream of Returning to School Life--The Typical Dream of a Dead Friend--Examples--Early Records of this Type of Dream--Analys...

The Apparent Rapidity of Thought in Dreams--This Phenomenon largely due to the Dream being a Description of a Picture--The Experience of Drowning Persons--The Sense of Time in D...

In the preceding chapters we have traced some of the elementary tendencies which prevail in the formation of dreams. These tendencies are in some respects so unlike those that r...

religious myths, he pointed out that epics and fairy-tales (Amor and Psyche, the stories of the Nibelung and Baldur, etc.) may be similarly explained. It seems probable that his...