ABSTRACT
The first two chapters have been based on the record of dreams which were not altogether of the kind which have most excited the wonder and curiosity of students of dream-psychology. None of them can perhaps be regarded as characteristic examples of the grotesque or fantastic character which is so frequent in the consciousness of sleep. Beyond the feature that the meeting of the Council of a London Scientific Society should take place in an outhouse of a Cambridge College garden, there was nothing very fantastic about my own dream, which was mainly of an intellectual kind and devoid of any definitely affective accompaniment. The chief feature of the first dream of my patient, on the other hand, was its tragical rather than grotesque character. Though it evidently had a comic character to those who did not recognise its deeper meaning, it was far more coherent than dreams often are.
