_Partwork: Easy Deutsch 04 Lektion 8 ISBN 83-7325-783-7

Well then, how could I БЂњseeБЂ«in color, and in better detail, when I was asleep? I decided there must be an БЂњinterpretation department.БЂ«When you are actually looking at somethingБЂ”a man, a lamp, or a wallБЂ”you donБЂ™t just see blotches of color. Something tells you what it is; it has to be interpreted. When youБЂ™re dreaming, this interpretation department is still operating, but itБЂ™s all slopped up. ItБЂ™s telling you that youБЂ™re seeing a human hair in the greatest detail, when it isnБЂ™t true. ItБЂ™s interpreting the random junk entering the brain as a clear image. One other thing about dreams. I had a friend named Deutsch, whose wife was from a family of psychoanalysts in Vienna. One evening, during a long discussion about dreams, he told me that dreams have significance: there are symbols in dreams that can be interpreted psychoanalytically. I didnБЂ™t believe most of this stuff, but that night I had an interesting dream: WeБЂ™re playing a game on a billiard table with three ballsБЂ”a white ball, a green ball, and a gray ballБЂ”and the name of the game is БЂњtitsies.БЂ«There was something about trying to get the balls into the pocket: the white ball and the green ball are easy to sink into the pocket, but the gray one, I canБЂ™t get to it ...»