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Go to the main article, or see the sidebars The "Engine Man's" Dream Journal, From Neurobiology to Psychology, or A Degree Will Not Be Forthcoming.

The "Engine Man's" Dream Journal

Dreams can be creative. The drawings at right come from the 1930s dream journal of a careful reporter whom Hobson calls the "Engine Man."

Top: A desk belonging to a fat man dressed only in a shirt resembling a hospital gown. "Along the back of the desk is fastened an index system of his own invention enabling him to find current quotations almost instantly," apparently a precursor of today's desk-top computer.

Middle: A bicycle built for two, with the bachelor dreamer driving and a space available for a companion.

Bottom: A car stopped on an unfinished bridge, where the temporary bridge constructed as a stop-gap is lower and must be reached by means of a large plank.



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