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record of their prevalence and of their mode of operation. Such are 

 instances in which the data are derived directly from the dreamer's 

 environment, but the elaboration is supplied by the submerged mental- 

 ity; the material is furnished, but the weaver operates the loom. The 

 following is apposite: during the afternoon there had been a sham 

 battle of the university battalion, and the narrator — a college girl — had 

 watched with interest the passing of the regiments. During the night — 

 about one o'clock — a telephone message arrived at the sorority-house 

 announcing a death in the family of one of the members, A. The house- 

 hold was at once aroused and excited. There were more telephone 

 messages, much walking in the halls, a message sent to the railroad 

 station to hold the train if need be ; and A. went off. Now the narrator 

 was only partially aroused by all this commotion, had no distinct knowl- 

 edge of A.'s departure, but had the memory of a vivid dream : " I 

 dreamed that I was at the northwestern station in a large city and that 

 companies of soldiers hurried to the train. I was very much excited, 

 and it seemed to me that some one whom I knew well was about to 

 leave. The engine whistled and started to move when some one called, 

 1 Hold the train for two minutes ; I must get home.' " Here is another 

 lucid instance in which the apperceptive processes take the guise that 

 dream-fancy gives them. From her seat in church the narrator noticed 

 in one of the forward pews a young lady seemingly familiar, took note 

 of her hat and dress, had no opportunity to ask any one who it was, 

 and was vaguely worried during the day by attempts to identify the 

 person. In the dream of the night, there was an automobile race; 

 motor-cars of all sorts whizzed by in rapid succession, each bearing the 

 name of the owner. One with a buggy-top, had marked in red letters 

 against the black body of the vehicle, ' Ethel E.' Miss E. was guiding 

 it, and was wearing the hat and dress that she had worn in church; 

 and so the recognition was complete. The association of the face with 

 the automobile had been intruded subconsciously; and as there were 

 few, if any other automobiles of this pattern in the town, the associative 

 clue was naturally successful. 



The Subconscious in Lapses and in Adjusted Conduct. 

 There are many other instances of identification processes and 

 similar solutions of queries in dreams; indeed the successful com- 

 pletion of problems, linguistic, mathematical, mechanical, personal, 

 constructive and imaginative, is far more common in my collec- 

 tion of subconscious activities than was anticipated. The intellectual 

 labor thus accomplished is not frequently of a high order; but it 

 adequately establishes the continuation in sleep, or at times the 

 clarification of activities that were prominent, even absobing, in 

 the day's occupation. They thus conform to the formula of per- 

 sistence of activity of a brain stimulated in a certain direction, with, 



