Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1920 — Last Night’s Dreams What They Mean [ARTICLE]

Last Night’s Dreams What They Mean

DID YOU DREAM OF TREES? ETHOUGHT 1 had wan ‘ IVA dered far in an old wood,” says Tennyson in his “Dream of Fair Women,” and Dante begins his wonderful dream of hell in the “Divine Comedy” with “In the midway of this mortal life I found me in a gloomy - / ■ - To dream of trees, or of being in a wood, is a very common occurrence to many people while to others such drqams are extremely rare. Freud in bls dream theory has what he calls a “dream censor” and many, if not most, of the other scientific investigators accept the Freudian theory in this respect. The theory is that when we leave our days of early childhood, which are entirely “unmoral,” we begin to accumulate a sense of shame, morals, proprieties, conventions, etc., which sense becomes woven into our conscious being. Even in sleep this sense is strong enough to assert itself and so acts as a check upon the more daring processes of the dream thought which, in order to get ,what it wants to express past the censor, is obliged to make use of symbolism. This may be true but if so we all, even the best of us, have had dreams in which the censor was evidently on strike or asleep at the switch. A dream of trees or woods would seem innocent enough but the extremists would explain it as something “put over” on the censor. With the mystics this dream is one of the oldest and most widespread of prophetic visions. With certain modifications it Is held to be a most auspicious omen todream of trees. If they are in leafor flower success In life, a happy marriage and many children await you. If already married look for success in business. If a sailor you may expect a good voyage. If you climb a dream-tree you will go far on the upward road, and if you pick fruit from one you will receive a legacy. But it is bad luck to cut down dream trees or to see them leafless or blasted. (Ccpyrighy ' - “ oL— Useful. “Having any success with your ouija board?” “Yes, indeed. It makes a lovely thing on which to stand flower Bits.’*