What does an eminent neuroanatomist dream of at night? The panic of being an auxiliary professor and receiving last minute instructions from the Dean to lecture on osteology? ‘Anxiety, distress … upon reviewing the bones in my memory. I list those of the hand: scaphoids, capitate, and I did not know any more’; or perhaps of secretly cutting slices of medulla for staining in a boarding house at night, or (a recurrent nightmare) that ‘they remove my skull and only skin covers the brain’—the dreamer is ‘alarmed and I awaken when I see that my brain is falling out’?

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秘密梦想实验室

一位杰出的神经解剖学家在晚上梦到什么？成为助理教授并收到院长提供的关于骨科讲座的最新指示的恐慌？“焦虑，苦恼……在回顾我记忆中的骨头时。我列出了那些手：舟骨，头颅，我再也不知道了。或者可能是晚上在宿舍里秘密地切开一片髓质以进行染色，或者（反复发生的噩梦）“他们摘掉了我的头骨，只有皮肤覆盖了大脑”-做梦的人“警醒了，当我看到自己的脑袋醒来时，我就醒了。大脑掉下来了吗？