ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses two dreams that dreamt by an educated lady. The dream describes, as the exposition of the initial situation, a mass panic as at an air-raid warning. A fluid body assumes the form of a drop when it is about to fall, from which it is clear that the UFO is conceived as a liquid falling from the sky, like rain. The UFO is used only as a sort of alarm signal, thanks to the collective excitement occasioned by flying saucers. The extraordinariness of the UFOs is paralleled by the extraordinariness of its psychological context, which has to be adduced if people are to risk any interpretation at all. The sexual hypothesis nevertheless possesses considerable power of conviction because it coincides with one of the principal instincts. A semi-human figure climbs out of the UFO, thus revealing an intelligent human relationship between the UFO and its observers.