The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 5 Page 37

helmet, a gorget, and a cloak.7 The two vagrants, who went along with the policeman quite peaceably, had tied to their loins sack-like aprons.8 A road led from the church to the mountain. This road was overgrown on each side with grass and brushwood, which became thicker and thicker as it reached the height of the mountain, where it spread out into quite a foreSt. 5. A stairway dream.

(Reported and interpreted by Otto Rank.)

For the following transparent pollution dream, I am indebted to the same colleague who furnished us with the dental-irritation dream.

“I am running down the stairway in the stair-house after a little girl, whom I wish to punish because she has done something to me.

At the bottom of the stairs some one held the child for me.