University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-26
What did you dream last night?

But wait, don't tell ii out loud
There may be a psychological exper
present, and he may interpret it t
mean something dreadful, terrible
stain on your character, perhaps
For did you know that every dream
has a meaning, that it expresses ;
suppressed wish and shows the inmos
depths of your nature?
No, we are not going back t.
witches, spirits and soothsayers, ol
even the days of our grandmothers
This is only the new psychology o
dreams.
Until about ten years ago, psychol
ogists believed dreams to be entirely
fanciful, meaningless collections o
images. Then, Professor Freud oi
Vienna, who had been investigating
mental states in nervous diseases, SET
forth the theory that every dream ex.
presses a suppressed wish, and that
every phase of it, no matter how
trivial, is significant and symbOlical
and can be Interpreted by psychology
Freud and his followers Investigated
and analyzed more than $4,000 dreams
and found this theory to be true in
all of them. Freud's ideas are now
accepted, at least in part, by all lead
ing psychologists.
Freud has done valuable work. -
said DIR. Max Meyer, of the department
of psychology here, "and his theory is
coming to be widely accepted. For
merly, scientists thought our dreams
had no meaning. were only confused
images and ideas we had had during
the day. According to Freud's belief,
every dream has a meaning, and is a
true expression of our inmost selves
as seen in our wishes"
Dreams OF Death.
When applied to dreams of death
this theory may have direful conse-
quences. Dream of a funeral, and
it's a sign of wedding" consolingly
said the old adage. Dream of fu-
neral, and it's probably a sign you
wished for that person to die" says
this dream psychology.
Freud explains that his saying that
many of our instructive longings and
wishes are of such nature that from
early childhood we are taught to re-
press thep. We crowd them out of
our waking consciousness, but they
get past the censor" i'm our dream
state and reappear. Many of these
are tabooed ideas which we would not
own in our waking minds.
Speaking of this Doctor Meyer said:
Suppose l have a millionaire uncle
who has no children. l may wish he
would die and leave me his money,
though when awake 1 would put aside
such thought and scarcely admit it
to myself. However, as a result of
this wish, may dream that he falls
down stairs and breaks his neck. Or
my dream may not be SO easy to
analyze as that. l may dream that
see my uncle sitting at a banquet
table eating heartily. Freud would
say that wished him to eat so much
he would get sick and die, hence 1
dream of him in this manner"
Then every time We dream of dead
persons it means we have wished them
to die?"
Helping the Undertaken.
THAT might be. However, our
1reams may be interpreted in different
ways. All the circumstances must be
Suppose 1 have a friend
N the undertaking business whom 1
Inn very anxious to see prosper.
Then my dreaming of dead persons
might be only an expression of that
wish"
This dream psychology would even
,ause the lover who dreams his sweet
leart is engaged to another to be
alarmed. This is a sign he does not
owe her and an unhappy marriage
nay result.
Freud, in this connection, tells of
/ young man who dreamed he was
IN train going to meet his sweet
leart. When the conductor came to
collect his ticket, he found he had lost
{. On reaching his destination he
ound his sweetheart engaged to an
,ther man.
On analyZing this dream, it was
ound that the young man had been
lsked by his employer to make a trip
o the city, but this had later been