Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — LAST NIGHT’S DREAMS [ARTICLE]

LAST NIGHT’S DREAMS

DID YOU DREAM OF FISH? ROBERT STRUMPELL, Hildebrandt and Weed Hallam state that the dream distinctly prefers impressions recently made upon the waking consciousness. Freud, as a result of his personal experience and of the analysis of the great number of dreams which 'he has considered in the course of his practice lays It down as a law that “some reference to the experiences of the day which has most recently passed is to be found in every dream," that is. anything read, seen, heard, done or thought about. It would seem as if the dream consciousness having taken over from the preceding day some trivial experience as a starter then had unlocked to it vast stores of material; the impressions of pur earlier years, later experiences and impressions, some so slight as to have been forgotten long ago or even totally Ignored at the time they came into existence, our secret wishes, suppressed desires and psychic characteristics of the possession of which we were, perhaps, unaware in our waking state. / Bridges seem to be thrown out to such of these as the dream consciousness selects to enable them to mingle with the dream from this standpoint, but in order to do so successfully it

—WHAT THEY MEAN

must be done at once on awakening, for though some dreams are so vivid that they can be remembered for years, as a rule the dream-edifice dissolves rapidly and we can only recover a fragment here and there. The experience of the day which has most recently passed which is brought over into the realm of shadows is frequently disguised or distorted, but can be discovered upon a close analysis. Thus a lady dreamed one night that she had found a fine baby sewed up in a live codfish. The day preceding she had admired one of her neighbor’s children and had stop. ed at the market to buy a fish on her way home. The mystics would go further in interpreting this dream. They say that to see a fish in a dream means good fortune, especially if they are white or red. To see fish swimming about, unless the water is muddy, is an omen that rich and powerful people will do you favors, and to dream of catching fish means you will be successful in love and business. But to dream of dead fish is unfavorable, and if a live fish slip out of your hand you will marry a person of a roaming disposition. Also, with a slippery fish, beware of slippery friends. To go fishing and catch nothing means disappointmebt In Dreamland, just as ft does in the actual world. (Copyright-) - —-• . ’ 1 1 1