Sleep and sleeplessness / [Henry Addington Bayley Bruce].

  • Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington), 1874-1959
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[1915], ©1915
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Credit: Sleep and sleeplessness / [Henry Addington Bayley Bruce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dreams, and that many others are trace- able to allusions in conversation to per- sons and topics which are of no great interest to me. One of the most peculiar dreams that I can recollect was built around a chance reference by a carriage-driver to the fact that an acquaintance of mine — a man in whom [ have no special interest — once lived in the New Hampshire town where I was making my summer home. Sometimes, it is true, my dreams are mani- festly rooted in incidents that have made a deep impression. But this is the exception to the rule, and I am sure that I am not different from other persons in this respect. The problem remains, of course, to deter- mine just why trivial incidents should pre- dominate in dream formation. In solving this problem, as in solving so many other problems in normal psy- chology, recourse must be had to certain facts lately brought to light by those whose special business it is to investigate the