Lady X., after walking in a wood near her house in Ireland, found thatshe had lost an important key. She dreamed that it was lying at theroot of a certain tree, where she found it next day, and her theory isthe same as that of Mr. A., the owner of the lost cheque. {11c}As a rule dreams throw everything into a dramatic form. Some oneknocks at our door, and the dream bases a little drama on the noise;it constructs an explanatory myth, a myth to account for the noise,which is acted out in the theatre of the brain.To take an instance, a disappointing one:--
