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FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939). Autograph letter signed to A.D. Chatterton ('Sehr geehrter Herr'), Vienna, 29 May 1935, in German, answering his correspondent's letter about the duration of dreams and agreeing that there is much to be said for his opinion that the dream lasts as long as a corresponding thought on waking, but explaining that the real problem is posed by those dreams in which a long drawn out dream seems to depend entirely upon the waking stimulus, as in the celebrated guillotine-dream of Maury and the alarm-clock dreams of Hildebrandt. 'Die Frage nach der Zeitdauer der Träume wird aber durch solche Träume gestellt, in denen ein lange ausgesponnener Inhalt völlig auf den Weckreiz am Ende eingestellt scheint wie in dem berühmten Guillotinentraum von Maury und den Weckerträumen von Hildebrandt, die sie in der Interpret. of Dr. nachlesen wollen', one page, 4°, autograph envelope addressed to Mr. A.D. Chatterton at Bournemouth (small piece torn from cover with loss of 2 letters).
Freud refers Chatterton to the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), in which the question of why the dreaming mind misjudges the nature of objective sensory stimuli is discussed in the first chapter. A. Maury and F.W. Hildebrandt both studied the assocation between external stimuli and dreams in the 19th century.
Freud refers Chatterton to the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), in which the question of why the dreaming mind misjudges the nature of objective sensory stimuli is discussed in the first chapter. A. Maury and F.W. Hildebrandt both studied the assocation between external stimuli and dreams in the 19th century.