I asked him point blank why he wanted to get rid of that brother. He avoided giving me a direct answer but admitted that if one of the three was to die, the one whose death he saw in his dream would be least missed by his family as he had always made trouble and was the “black sheep.”...
Even in such cases the wish fulfilment theory holds good.
CHAPTER XII: ATTITUDES REFLECTED IN DREAMS
Dreams reveal to us what our unconscious cravings are and this is of course valuable information. But cravings are only symptoms of something more important and less easily dealt with: the subject’s attitude to life.
The neurosis is merely a wrong attitude to life and its problems. A fear of darkness, an incestuous desire, an abnormal craving for a certain food are no more important in themselves than a small sore appearing on one’s lip. But as the sore may mean that the organism is infected with the spirochaeta of syphilis, the “psychic” phenomena I mentioned may mean that the organism has adopted toward reality a negative attitude leading to death instead of life.
Owing to its visualizing powers, the dream makes attitudes extremely obvious at the very first glance.
We are as we see ourselves in our dreams.
Positive, energetic dreams, full of action, indicate strength either in resolve or in resistance.