This book, as the author very frankly tells us in her Preface, is in no sense a scientific work, nor, we may add, psychological, but it has interest as a "layman's" ideas about, and observations concerning, her own personal experiences in dreaming.

Further, it interests from another aspect, namely, the proof it gives (as such a multitude of books and articles appearing to-day) of the wide-spread effect of the discoveries of Freud and others, even if much in those discoveries is but little understood. There are advantages and disadvantages in the fact of a much-extended interest in dreams and dream-life: it is to the good that human beings should begin to take cognizance of something more in their psychic existence than the consciousness which they have been accustomed to regard, hitherto, as the only factor, and should become capable of paying respect to that vital element—the