ances are quite usual in dementia præcox and manifest themselves in a manifold manner. The dreams are often very vivid and we can readily understand that frequently patients are unable to properly correct them. Many patients draw their delusions exclusively from the dreams to which they attribute real validity.[1] The part played by the vivid dreams of hysteria is well known. Besides disturbances by dreams, many other complex-fragments may disturb sleep, such as hallucinations, fancies, etc., just as hypnosis does in hysteria. Frequently patients complain about their unnatural sleep, which is not at all a real sleep, but an artificial rigidity. We hear similar complaints wherever there exists a strong affect which cannot be totally extinguished by sleep-inhibition and therefore accompanies sleep as a constant keynote (e. g., melancholia and depressive affects in hysteria). Not seldom intelligent hysterics feel the "complex-restlessness" in their sleep and can precisely detail it. A patient of Janet says: "There are always two or three of my personalities who do not sleep, nevertheless I have fewer personalities during sleep; there are some who sleep but little. These persons dream, but not the same dream. I feel that there are some who dream of different things." With these remarks the patient nicely expresses the feeling of the unrelenting and laboring autonomous complex which does not surrender to the sleep-inhibition of the ego-complex.
- ↑ Compare Sante de Sanctis: Die Träume, Halle, 1901, and Kazowsky: Neuro. Zentr.-Bl., 1901, p. 440.
We have a patient who entertains the most manifold sexual delusions which exclusively originate from dreams, as we were able to convince ourselves on numerous occasions. Patient simply takes the contents of her dreams which are all very vivid and plastic, as real, and corresponding to the dream she becomes abusive, querulous and complaining, but only in writing. In her general behavior she is nice and orderly in contradistinction to the contents of her letters and writings.
enteritis. With the onset of the disease he became completely changed, he was patient and grateful, obeyed all requests and always gave polite and precise information. His convalescence manifested itself by his again becoming monosyllabic and shut in, and one fine morning he signalled his complete recovery by receiving the doctor with the following: "Here comes again one of the flock of dogs and apes who wishes to play the Saviour."
