This is the material of dream symbolism. It is not complete and might be deepened as well as extended. But I am of the opinion it will seem more than enough to you, perhaps will make you reluctant. You will ask, "Do I really live in the midst of sex symbols? Are all the objects that surround me, all the clothes I put on, all the things that I touch, always sex symbols, and nothing else?" There really are sufficient grounds for such questions, and the first is, "Where, in fact, are we to find the meaning of these dream symbols if the dreamer himself can give no information concerning them, or at best can give only incomplete information?" My answer is: "From many widely different sources, from fairy tales and myths, jokes and farces, from folklore, that is, the knowledge of the customs, usages, sayings and songs of peoples, from the poetic and vulgar language. Everywhere we find the same symbolism and in many of these instances we understand them without further information. If we follow up each of these sources separately we shall find so many parallels to the dream symbolism that we must believe in the correctness of our interpretations." The human body, we have said, is, according to Scherner, frequently symbolized in the dream by the house. Continuing this representation, the windows, doors and entrances are the entrances into the body cavities, the facades are smooth or provided with balconies and projections to which to hold. The same symbolism is to be found in our daily speech when we greet a good friend as "_old house_" or when we say of someone, "We'll hit him in the _belfry_," or maintain of another that he's not quite right in the _upper story_. In anatomy the body openings are sometimes called the _body-portals_. The fact that we meet our parents in the dream as imperial or royal persons is at first surprising. But it has its parallel in the fairy tale. Doesn't it begin to dawn upon us that the many fairy tales which begin "Once upon a time there was a _king_ and a _queen_" intend nothing else than, "Once there was a _father_ and a _mother_?" In our families we refer to our children as _princes_, the eldest as the _crown-prince_. The king usually calls himself the _father of the country_. We playfully designate little children as _worms_, and say, sympathetically, "_poor little worm_." Let us return to the symbolism of the house. When we use the projections of the house to hold ourselves on to in the dream, are we not reminded of the familiar colloquialism about persons with well-developed breasts: "She has something to _hold onto_"? The folk express this in still another way when it says, "there's lots of _wood in front of her house_"; as though it wished to come to the aid of our interpretation that wood is a feminine, maternal symbol.