Dreams: Scientists Begin to Wake Up
Brenda You Chicago Tribune, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
DO YOU DREAM of swimming? You must have been a bedwetter. Dreaming of falling? If you're a woman, that means you're surrendering to erotic temptation. If you dream of a person dying, that means you secretly wish - or have wished - for that person to die. A woman who dreams of having a tooth pulled is going to have a baby.
If this symbolism seems farfetched to those who dream every night - and that is all of us, whether we remember it or not - that's because, according to modern-day dream doctors, those theories are utterly false.
But to the psychologists and philosophers of the late 1800s and early 1900s, those explanations, by both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, …
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Article title: Dreams: Scientists Begin to Wake Up.
Contributors: Brenda You Chicago Tribune - Author.
Newspaper title: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO).
Publication date: September 12, 1994.
Page number: 4E.
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