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One of the most interesting aspects of telepathic behavior occurs when two or more individuals who are unknown to each other effect a psychological relationship in their seemingly separate dreams which seems to transcend the conventionally conceived barriers of time, space and ordinary sense perception. Such dreams appear to be by no means rare and are occasionally seen during the course of analyses, where the analyst may be privileged to explore the conditions of such an occurrence with greater or less success. In a previous publication, one pair of dreams in this category was described,1 and another was mentioned in passing in the course of the discussion of a series of events following an experimental attempt to bring about the telepathic transmission of a number.2 In this discussion, no description of the manifest portions of the dreams or analysis of their latent contents was given because this would have involved a lengthy and unnecessary digression from the main point of the exposition. Subsequently, however, many interested readers felt, on varying grounds, that the separate publication of these dreams was warranted and that the description of the entire series of events surrounding that experiment ought thereby be completed.
An analytic patient reported the following dream:
'I was walking the street in a very heavy downpour and came to the house of a next-door neighbor where I decided to ask for shelter. The house seemed to be a palatial mansion. I was a little afraid to go in because these people were very snobbish; but I reasoned that they couldn't refuse me