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Francis Schiller, MD

Arch Neurol. 1985;42(9):903-906.

Abstract
The paradoxical aspects of dreams have always been interpreted according to prevalent ways of thinking. Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been reported since the Renaissance. Maury also linked dreams to a paradoxical "unconscious consciousness"; von Feuchtersieben linked dreaming to Gemeingefühl or coenesthesis.

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Neurology and History of the Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 8, 1984.

Reprint requests to Department of History of the Health Sciences, University of California, U468, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr Schiller).

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