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A peculiar ambiguity in his thinking handicapped Freud's theory of dreams. In his paper “On Dreams” (1901) he suggested dividing dreams into three categories:
“dreams which make sense and are … intelligible, which,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
In the course of my work I enjoyed the help of many students and colleagues. Dr. Lenny Price, Juddy Owens, Ofra Lubecky, and Anka Ditroi helped me with the experiments reported here; Professor Goldine Gleser advised me on statistics; and Sue Heinemann transformed the English of the original manuscript into what it is now. To all of them, my thanks for their goodwill and contributions.
Grateful acknowledgment is also made to the publishers for permission to reprint material from; “Contingent Negative Variation and Psychological Processes in Man,” by , in Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 77 (1972); The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud, Basic Books, Inc., and George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., Publishers; Personality Structure and Measurement, by H. J. Eysenck, London: Routledge & Regan Paul; The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, revised and edited by James Strachey, by permission of Sigmund Freud Copyrights, Ltd., The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, and The Hogarth Press, Ltd.; A Study of Thinking, by Jerome S. Bruner et al., copyright 1956, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
that is to say, can be inserted without further difficulty into the context of our mental life. We have numbers of such dreams.”
dreams which, although they “have a clear sense, nevertheless have a bewildering effect because we cannot see how to fit that sense into our mental life.”
“dreams which are without either sense or intelligibility, which seem disconnected, confused and meaningless. The preponderant majority of the products of our dreaming exhibit these characteristics.… The most evident signs of incoherence are seldom absent, especially in dream-compositions o