" (X. 41.) Not infrequently
there is a struggle in sleep, just as the hypnotic subject may
resist suggestions; thus, a lady of thirty-five dreamed a sexual
dream, and awoke without excitement; again she fell asleep, and
had another dream of sexual character, but resisted the tendency
to excitement, and again awoke; finally, she fell asleep and had
a third sexual dream, which was this time accompanied by the
orgasm. (This has recently been described also by Naecke, who
terms it _pollutio interrupta, Neurologisches Centralblatt_, Oct.
16, 1909; the corresponding voluntary process in the waking state
is described by Rohleder and termed _masturbatio interrupta,
Zeitschrift fuer Sexualwissenschaft_, Aug., 1908.) The factors
involved in the acquirement of vesical and sexual control during
sleep are the same, but the conditions are somewhat different.
There is a very intimate connection between the vesical and the
sexual spheres, as I have elsewhere pointed out (see e.g. in the
third volume of these _Studies_, "Analysis of the Sexual
Impulse"). This connection is psychic as well as organic. Both in
men and women, a full bladder tends to develop erotic dreams.
(See e.g. K.A. Scherner, _Das Leben des Traums_, 1861, pp. 187 et
seq.; Spitta also points out the connection between vesical and
erotic dreams, _Die Schlaf und Traumzustaende_, 2d ed.
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