sex, 2 dream of both sexes, 1 usually dreams of the opposite
sex, and 1 man, while dreaming of both, dislikes those dreams in which
women figure. In at least 3 cases dreams of a sexual character began at
the age of 8 or earlier.

The phenomena presented by erotic dreams, alike in normal and
abnormal persons, are somewhat complex, and dreams are by no
means a sure guide to the dreamer's real sexual attitude. The
fluctuations of dream imagery may be illustrated by the
experiences of one of my subjects who thus indirectly summarises
his own experiences: "When he was quite a child, he used to be
haunted by gross and grotesque dreams of naked adult men, which
must have been erotic. At the age of puberty he dreamed in two
ways, but always about males. One species of vision was highly
idealistic; a radiant and lovely young man's face with floating
hair appeared to him on a background of dim shadows. The other
was obscene, being generally the sight of a groom's or carter's
genitals in a state of violent erection. He never dreamed
erotically or sentimentally about women; but when the dream was
frightful, the terror-making personage was invariably female. In
ordinary dreams, women of his family or acquaintance played a
trivial part. At the age of 24, having determined to conquer his
homosexual passions, he married, found no difficulty in
cohabiting with his wife, and begat several children, although he
took but little passionate delight in the sexual act. He still
continued to dream exclusively of men, for several years; and the
obscene visions became more frequent than the idealistic.
Gradually, coarse and uninteresting erotic dreams of women began
to haunt his mind in sleep. A curious particular regarding the
new type of vision was that he never dreamed of whole females,
only of their sexual parts, seen in a blur; and the seminal
emissions which attended the mental pictures left a feeling of
fatigue and disgust. In course of time, his wife and he agreed to
live separately so far as sexual relations are concerned. He then
indulged his passion for males, and wholly lost those rudimentary
female dreams which had been developed during the period of
nuptial cohabitation."

Not only is it possible for the genuine invert to be trained into
heterosexual erotic dreams, but homosexual dreams may
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