The author suggests that two dreams mentioned by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams are autobiographical. Freud's identification with the explorer, Nansen, is viewed in the light of his growing ambivalence with Fliess and his earlier repressed rivalry with father. In association to the Nansen dream, an early childhood screen memory is recalled connecting 'traveling (Reisen) with pain (Reissen)'. It is suggested that the screen memory connected with the Nansen dream reveals genetic material in Freud's self-analysis of his traveling phobia.