Studies in Dreams

The following slight studies dealing with certain dream problems have been written from a series of notes, in which dreams and certain experiments in dreaming have been more or less regularly recorded during a long period of years. If it is asked what they have to offer that is new on a subject on which so much has been already written, the answer must be that we are even now only at the beginning of this study, that many problems concerning dreams and concerning the border state that lies between sleeping and waking are still to be solved, and that some of these have as yet hardly been touched on at all in the literature of dreams. There are many aspects of these questions which can only be very imperfectly dealt with by an unscientific observer whose want of technical knowledge is a grave disadvantage in writing on a subject to which so much learning has been devoted, yet I believe that there is room in this fascinating study not only for the philosopher and the psychologist, but also for the xxvii unlearned but faithful recorder of personal experience. Our dreams are the most individual of all our experiences, and we each approach them from a separate standpoint of our own. 


This classic includes the following chapters: 


I. Introductory 

II. Dream Control 

III. Flying Dreams 

IV. Dream Recording 

V. Dream Memory, Dream Imagination and Dream Reason 

VI. The “Super-Dream” 

VII. Symbolism in Dreams and the Significance of Dreams In Tradition 

VIII. Dream Places 

IX. Dream Construction 

X. Sense Impressions in Dreams 

XI. Borderland State 

XII. Borderland State 

XIII. The Actors in Dreams 

XIV. Moral Sense in Dreams