_Source._—I have seen in the show-window of a book store a _monograph_ upon the genus cyclamen. 3. I see two women on the street, _mother and daughter_, the latter of whom is my patient. _Source._—A female patient who is under treatment has told me what difficulties her _mother_ puts in the way of her continuing the treatment. 4. At the book store of S. and R. I subscribe to a periodical which costs _20 florins_ annually. _Source._—During the day my wife has reminded me that I still owe her _20 florins_ of her weekly allowance. 5. I receive a _communication_, in which I am treated as a member, from the Social Democratic Committee. _Source._—I have received _communications_ simultaneously from the Liberal Committee on Elections and from the president of the Humanitarian Society, of which I am really a member. 6. A man on _a steep rock in the middle of the ocean_, after the manner of Boecklin. _Source._—_Dreyfus on Devil’s Island_; at the same time news from my relatives in _England_, &c. The question might be raised, whether the dream is invariably connected with the events of the previous day, or whether the reference may be extended to impressions from a longer space of time in the immediate past. Probably this matter cannot claim primary importance, but I should like to decide in favour of the exclusive priority of the day before the dream (the dream-day). As often as I thought I had found a case where an impression of two or three days before had been the source of the dream, I could convince myself, after careful investigation, that this impression had been remembered the day before, that a demonstrable reproduction had been interpolated between the day of the event and the time of the dream, and, furthermore, I was able to point out the recent occasion upon which the recollection of the old impression might have occurred. On the other hand, I was unable to convince myself that a regular interval (H. Swoboda calls the first one of this kind eighteen hours) of biological significance occurs between the stimulating impression of the day and its repetition in the dream.[AQ] I am, therefore, of the opinion that the stimulus for every dream is to be found among those experiences “upon which one has not yet slept” for a night. Thus the impressions of the immediate past (with the exception of the day before the night of the dream) stand in no different relation to the dream content from those of times which are as far removed in the past as you please. The dream may select its material from all times of life, provided only, that a chain of thought starting from one of the experiences of the day of the dream (one of the “recent” impressions) reaches back to these earlier ones. But why this preference for recent impressions? We shall reach some conjectures on this point if we subject one of the dreams already mentioned to a more exact analysis. I select the dream about the monograph.