When waking occurs just
afterward, it seems at least possible that there may be much
imagery that existed, but failed to be recalled to memory,
possibly because the flow of psychic impressions was over very
familiar fields, and this, therefore, was forgotten, while any
eruption into new or unwonted channels, stood out with
distinctness. All these psychic phenomena, although very
characteristic of man in his prime, are not so of the dreams of
dawning puberty, which are far more vivid." (G. Stanley Hall,
_Adolescence_, vol. i, p. 455.)
I may, further, quote the experience of an anonymous
contributor--a healthy and chaste man between 30 and 38 years of
age--to the _American Journal of Psychology_ ("Nocturnal
Emissions," Jan., 1904): "Legs and breasts often figured
prominently in these dreams, the other sexual parts, however,
very seldom, and then they turned out to be male organs in most
cases. There were but two instances of copulation dreamt. Girls
and young women were the, usual _dramatis personae_, and,
curiously enough, often the aggressors. Sometimes the face or
faces were well known; sometimes, only once seen; sometimes,
entirely unknown. The orgasm occurs at the most erotic part of
the dream, the physical and psychical running parallel. This most
erotic or suggestive part of the dream was very often quite an
innocent looking incident enough.
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