K., and there was also something between H. (the other girl) and myself.

Am sitting later in a large third class compart' ment, near the window, far forward (in the direction of the tram) and to the left, back to back with the two. Moreover, it seems there is no one else in the compartment.

I stand up and through the window I look upon the moon hovermg in the shape of a gigantic egg yolk, somewhat double her customary size. To the left of it a luminous ring fitting it, much like the Saturn rings.

I make some remark about how strange it is that the moon should hover so close to the railroad track, and H. answered say'mg that it was but an optical illusion. "Is that so," I say. "I am going to find out," and I lean forward to catch the moon with both hands and draw it into the compartment. The ring around it I disregarded, it moved along.

But under my hands the moon was elastic and wavered around. It. felt like the pretty yolk swimming in a plateful of soup when one tries to squeeze it with the spoon cmd the egg yolk cannot be broken and it resumes its shape every time.

I gave it up and fell back on my seat exhausted, thinking how presumptuous it would be for me to draw the moon inside and rob the earth of its moon, and I don't know whether I actually said so, but H., at any rate, seemed to say to me: daring it would not be. Only you're inexperienced and don't understand as yet the relations of things. She referred distinctly to physiologic relations. Everything is intertwined with endless threads into everything else and reverts back to itself again.

I seated myself again, keeping silent, but thinking: how strange and comical.

This "innocent dream of a virgin" enables one to depict the state of her mind. One finds that she already dimly perceives a great deal and she holds herself back from certain knowledge. The fitting of one thing into another is perceived as "psychological" and the organic aspect is suppressed. One also notes that she perceives these excitations as sinful and she envies her friend H., the simple sweet girl, who has a lover, on account of the latter's experiences. The dream does not expose a riddle: it depicts merely a simple, romantically disposed un-gratified person. I state anticipatively that the picture of the moon was soon found to be a symbolism for penis and testicles.

The ring is the engagement ring. She neglects the ring later. She is, therefore, prepared to consider extramarital coitus, like her friend H. The statement, "You don't understand that. Everything is intertwined with endless threads (spermal threads) into everything else and reverts back to itself," is particularly striking. It is noteworthy also that her compartment is a Durchgangscoupe, a "passage" compartment. The vulgar term for testicles comes to surface in the "Eidotter," the egg yolk.

Miss Gamma relates an almost identical dream: