ABSTRACT
An immediate difficulty in any attempt to write about dreams is the sheer bulk of literature in the many disciplines that address the subject. For example, dream interpretation forms the basis of both Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, and provides material to be worked with in most other arts and psychotherapeutic interventions. Young children are encouraged to have free-floating dreams and not to fear them; by adolescence they are being taught to control their dreams, to overcome adversaries present in the dream as well as pursuing pleasure to its utmost limits. The Temiars place great store by their dreams and if anyone says that they have dreamt then there will be plenty of people to listen to their dreams. The Temiars do not necessarily share their dreams and some people who may be potential shaman keep their dreaming private if they do not want to take up the responsibilities it would impose on them.
