Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29
BY JUNE E. DOWNEY

self tonguetied and mute. Many dreams, again, seem
to be dramatic expression of realized fears.
What the students of dream life urge upon is that
dreams get their unity their impetus from ruling
passions 1t would that some of us are tcmpera-
mentally prone to feel certain emotions Fear desire
may dominate our lives OF course, variations in
sentiments from night to night; but the dreams of
any particular night the dramatic expression of the
same lmpenous emotion, as complete recall OF the
train of dreams would show. Sometimes, in fact, set
translations of certain emotional ideas become patented,
it and stereotypcd dreams result Your dreams
repeated time and again in whole part. a long
flight OF stairs whose top vo cannot reach though
make the trial night after night, SvmboliZeS the
quered difficulties in your daily life. Or mansion of
many, many rooms with no outside door window
symbolizes the confusion and perpcxity that fe's
problems
1t is because the dream furnishes opportunity for
study of the suppressed emotional life of the dreamer
that understanding of has been found to be of
practical value. Many mental disorders deeply
rooted in the secret emotional life that the physician is
helpless in dealing with them unless he put his fin
ger the hidden fear or unappeased desire that is
poisoning the wellsprngs of life Hence it is of particu
lar value to bring to light the repeated dream that
bodies persistent horror fear desire Dreams
however rapidly forgotten waking not recalled at
ALL Much of the work of the interpreter of dreams
sss therefore in discovering methods for the recall of
dreams. Voluntary efforts the part of the dreamer
may help little; the of association hypnosm may
do In any the recall and complete facing of
suppressed desire or fear may effect of the patient
1t IS worth noting, too, that recorded
where dream itself, although not recalled in the wax
ing state by the dreamer, has poisoned his waking
hours SlCkneSSeS such as nausea and headache have
been traced directly the horror caused by dream
events The horror and sickness may persist although
there recall of the dream. Again conscious recall
of the dream is the best of such disturbances
1t is often claimed and no doubt with some measure
of truth, that organic diseases color the dream life long
before they reveal themselves in the waking state.
Physicians it is said might profit by such revelations.
Thus diseases of respiration dreams of suocaon
very different from the visions that arise from disturbed
circulation In such dreams-that is, in those dreams
caused by organic bodily conditions is said that the
dreamer always plays the star role while in dreams
that arise from brain activity he may be spec
tator of the dream drama and not actor in the play
AS for the dream material, there to be no limit
to the amount at disposal Long forgotten events
of our childhood turn up again; trivial incidents to
which gave attention in recent
experiences furnish motives for plots;
dominant interestsm control our dream
-L1$y life as they control our waking thoughts.
9NVI Most of u.s. however, have never learned
; ~ to put dream forces at work did
n - Robert Louis Stevenson, who found that
his Brownies would most accommo-
n III datingly supply him with well developed
u plots for marketable stories. If
y III dreams serve as a heathful outlet for
~ our primitive and barbaric passions, they
- appear, for most of us, to their