Freud said that in his past 27 years of experiences working as an analyst, he never heard of a truly telepathic dream from his patients.
Freud said he found no connection between dreams and telepathy. He said dream imagery did not foretell reality. He narrated an anecdote where he saw dream imagery of his son appearing as being symbolized as dead. He continued to say, “My son, however, whom the dream pronounced to be dead, came home from the war unscathed.” (Freud, p.237)
How to explain the discrepancy between dream imagery and real events? Stress, anxiety, imagination, and false self-prophecy could have induced the invention of dream imagery to portray gloom and doom. The truth couldn’t be farther away from the suggestion that the young man had died.
Reference
Freud, S. 1958. On Creativity and The Unconscious. HarperPerennial x ModernThought: NY.
