ABSTRACT
A special study of children’s fears at different ages would be of considerable value, but for this purpose dreams should be recorded at regular intervals. The mystery of mysteries in education is the prodigious progress made by the intelligent child during the period of five to nine years of age, a rate of progress in mental achievement out of all proportion to that of any other period of life. There are many important problems, however, which appear to open up great possibilities in the child’s dream as an object of research. Many reliable records are available of the solution of problems, the clearing up of difficult situations and matters of a similar nature through the action of the unconscious working through the dream. As a result of an investigation of dreams carried out with unusual thoroughness and care, Sante De Sanctis came to the conclusion that dream life is a revelation of individual character.
