The Interpretation of Dreams

They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.

Accumulation of semen produces voluptuous dreams, and local pain the idea of suffering ill treatment, of hostile attacks, or of accidental bodily injuries.

Wherever the enumeration of dream sources is complete we ultimately find four forms, which are also utilised for the division of dreams:—
I. External (objective) sensory stimuli.
II. Internal (subjective) sensory stimuli.
III. Internal (organic) physical excitations.
IV. Purely psychical exciting sources.

He who dreams turns his back upon the world of waking consciousness

"He who dreams turns his back upon the world of waking consciousness"

They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.

ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration

However strange the dream may seem, it can never detach itself from reality, and its most sublime as well as its most farcical

structures must always borrow their elementary material either from what we have seen with our eyes in the outer world, or from what has previously found a place somewhere in our waking thoughts; in other words, it must be taken from what we had already experienced either objectively or subjectively."

may justly say that no matter what the dream offers, it finds its material in reality and in the psychic life arrayed around this reality.