usly； but yawns at the
breakfast…table when somebody else begins to tell the adventures of the
night before。 I hesitate； therefore； to enter upon an account of my
dreams； for it is a literary sin to bore the reader； and a scientific
sin to report the facts of a far country with more regard to point and
brevity than to plete and literal truth。 The psychologists have
trained a pack of theories and facts which they keep in leash； like so
many bulldogs； and which they let loose upon us whenever we depart from
the straight and narrow path of dream probability。 One may not even tell
an entertaining dream without being suspected of having liberally edited
it；……as if editing were one of the seven deadly sins； instead of a
useful and honourable occupation！ Be it understood； then； that I am
discoursing at my own breakfast…table； and that no scientific man is
present to trip the autocrat。
I used to wonder why scientific men and others were always asking me
about my dreams。 But I am not surprised now； since I have discovered
what some of them believe to be the ordinary waking experience of one
who is both deaf and blind。 They think that I can know very little about
objects even a few feet beyond the reach of my arms。 Everything outside
of myself； according to them； is a hazy blur。 Trees； mountains； cities；
the ocean； even the house I live in are but fairy fabrications； misty
unrealities。 Therefore it is assumed that my dreams should have peculiar
interest for the man of science。 In some undefined way it is expected
that they should reveal the world I dwell in to be flat； formless；
colourless； without perspective； wit