Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Nobel-winning neurologist who believed--maybe the first in history to believe--that dreams were just brain-static, as activity suppressed during our practical day and neglected neurons get to play. He was critical of Freud and planned to publish a journal full of dreams challenging the Freudian dogma that every dream concealed a wish. He died before publication and his original dream-accounts (an unedited mass of scribbles on scraps and envelopes, anything that came to hand) were lost, but Cajal had asked one of his students to transcribe the dreams for preparation as a book, and that rough transcript did survive--over 100 dreams.

Oddly, his own dreams seem to challenge his waking self's theory that dreams are meaningless--though they don't seem very Freudian either!

RELATED TOPICS: other dreamworkers of the era: William Archer - Carl Jung - Sigmund Freud - Yeats - AE (George Russell) - Edwin Muir - E.M. Martin - Mary Arnold-Forster - Havelock Ellis - an earlier dreamer influencing both Yeats and AE: Anna Kingsford -- See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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	BULLFIGHTERS' BRAIN MODEL: by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1927/8/9; a silly dreamlet I dream I'm at a center for bull fighting, teaching the structure of the brain, but they believe the brain is a structureless gelatin and the soul is all...
	MORNING DREAM: by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1926/12/12; a dream modeling the mind I dream I'm ranting about the structure of the mind, postulating four layers--odd, since I think dreams are meaningless--just neurons getting some exercise! So whence this theory? CAUTION: JARGON
	TERRIBLE DREAM, TACTILE DREAM (EVENING ESPRONCEDA): by S. Ramón y Cajal, c.1930; a nightmare Doctors remove my upper skull and sew my scalp over my brain. I can get around, if I stay upright, but I'm terribly vulnerable... CAUTION: NIGHTMARE REFLECTS REALITY
	THREE CLASSES: by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1928/12/10; a dream on scientific integrity I dream I'm teaching my students that those willing to let evidence change their minds are rare. Climbers seek fame and status, while iconoclasts seek to upset order without regard for truth... CAUTION: SOBERING FROM A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
	WAR BETWEEN LIBERALS & REACTIONARIES: by S. Ramón y Cajal, 1929/5/26; a predictive dream? There is a war between liberals and reactionaries, but the dream makes no sense: friends claim to be hit, to be wounded, but I see no bodies, no blood... CAUTION: ANTICIPATES THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

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