{11b} THE LOST KEY Lady X., after walking in a wood near her house in Ireland, found that she had lost an important key.

She dreamed that it was lying at the root of a certain tree, where she found it next day, and her theory is the same as that of Mr.A., the owner of the lost cheque.

{11c} As a rule dreams throw everything into a dramatic form.

Some one knocks at our door, and the dream bases a little drama on the noise; it constructs an explanatory myth, a myth to account for the noise, which is acted out in the theatre of the brain.
To take an instance, a disappointing one:-- THE LOST SECURITIES A lady dreamed that she was sitting at a window, watching the end of an autumn sunset.

There came a knock at the front door and a gentleman and lady were ushered in.