"My son, that has a good meaning." (Jokingly:) "Give me ten paras (the smallest monetary unit current m Constantinople) and I will interpret the dream for you.'"

"If I had ten paras, I would not be dreaming of cakes." 6

Let us now take a long jump all the way into the sixteenth century and turn our attention to a dream of the famous physician, philosopher and mathematician, Cardanus, author of a book, De Somniis, and whose faith in the prophetic truth of his dreams was so unshakable that he chose his wife, the daughter of a highway robber, after a resemblance with a face he had seen in dreams; the dream had prophesied for him the awakening of his passion, previously dormant, in that particular woman's company. He had been impotent up to his thirty-fourth year. That an impotent man should crave entrance into the "garden of love" any one may easily understand. Here is how Cardanus relates the story:

6 Die Schwanke des Nassr-ed-din und Buadem. Reklam Bib-liothek, 2735.

(7) One night I found myself in a beautiful garden of flowers and fruit

A soft air pervaded everything so that no painter, no poet, no human thought could have conjured up anything more charming. I was at the entrance to that garden. The gate was open and I saw a girl clad in white. I embraced and kissed her; but at the very first kiss the gardener bolted the gate close. I begged him most fervently to leave the gate open. It seemed to me that I felt sad about it and I was still clmgmg to the girl when I was locked out.

What is a man of rich imagery likely to dream about when the garden of love closes on him? This beautiful example shows us the day wish in a symbolism but partly covered up. But the symbolism is not always so obvious and plain as in this example. Often the whole dream is devoted to a symbolic dramatization. I want to avoid for the present the more complicated problems which we shall have to consider later. I shall merely quote an example from Freud's Interpretation of Dreams showing how the dream expresses colloquialisms through pictures.

A lady dreams: