ABSTRACT
To the primitive mind, the seen and the unseen worlds form but one, and there is uninterrupted communication between obvious reality and the mystic powers. Nowhere perhaps is this more directly and completely brought about than in dreams, in which man passes from the one world to the other without being aware of it. Such is in fact the ordinary idea of the dream to primitive peoples. Among many inferior races, where all pay great attention to dreams, people ask each other about their dreams every morning, exchange their experiences, and interpret the dreams; there is always somebody or other who has had a dream. Among the Indians of New France "those who have the gift of dreaming a good deal do not pay attention to all their dreams indiscriminately; they distinguish between the false and the true, and the latter, they say, are rather rare".
