ar with the feminine
body when awake, is not likely to see it when asleep, even in
dreams of women; in the second place, the confusions and
combinations of dream imagery often tend to obliterate sexual
distinctions, however free from perversions the subjects may be.
Thus, a correspondent tells me of a healthy man, of very pure
character, totally inexperienced in sexual matters, and never
having seen a woman naked, who, in his sexual dreams, always sees
the woman with male organs, though he has never had any sexual
inclinations for men, and is much in love with a lady. The
confusions and associations of dream imagery, leading to abnormal
combinations, may be illustrated by a dream which once occurred
to me after reading Joest's account of how a young negress, whose
tattoo-marks he was sketching, having become bored, suddenly
pressed her hands to her breasts, spirting two streams of
lukewarm milk into his face, and ran away laughing; I dreamed of
a woman performing a similar action, not from her breasts,
however, but from a penis with which she was furnished. Again, by
another kind of confusion, a man dreams sexually that he is with
a man, although the figure of the partner revealed in the dream
is a woman. The following dream, in a normal man who had never
been, or wished to be, in the position shown by the dream, may be
quoted: "I dreamed that I was a big boy, and that a younger boy
lay close beside me, and that we (or, certainly, he) had seminal
emissions; I was complacently passive, and had a feeling of shame
when the boy was discovered. On awaking I found I had had no
emission, but was lying very close to my wife. The day before, I
had seen boys in a swimming-match." This was, it seems to me, an
example of dream confusion, and not an erotic inverted dream.
(Naecke also brings forward inverted dreams by normal persons; see
e.g. his "Beitraege zu den sexuellen Traeumen," _Archiv fuer
Kriminal-Anthropologie_, Bd. XX, 1908, p. 366.)

So far as I have been able to ascertain, there seem to be, generally
speaking, certain differences in the manifestations of auto-erotism during
sleep in men and women which I believe to be not without psychological
significance. In men the phenomenon is fairly simple; it usually appears
about puberty continues at intervals of varying duration during sexual
life provide