Washington Law Review Volume 79 Number 2 5-1-2004 Wild Dreamers: Meditations on the Admissibiity of Dream Talk Louise Harmon Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr Part of the Law and Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Louise Harmon, Wild Dreamers: Meditations on the Admissibiity of Dream Talk, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 575 (2004). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol79/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at UW Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington Law Review by an authorized editor of UW Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Copyright © 2004 by Washington Law Review Association WILD DREAMERS: MEDITATIONS ON THE ADMISSIBILITY OF DREAM TALK Louise Harmon* IN TR O D U C TION ........................................................................... 576 I. SOME EARLY THEORIES ABOUT DREAMS, O.J. SIMPSON, AND A FREUDIAN INTERLUDE ..................... 586 A. Aristotle, Hobbes, and Some Premodem Dreamers ........ 586 B. O.J. Simpson: Wild Dreamer Extraordinaire................. 591 C. A Freudian Interlude: Simpson's Fatal Obsession .......... 599 D. Other Wilder, More Worrisome Theories About the Meaning of O.J. Simpson's Dreams ................................ 605 II. THREE WILD DREAMERS FROM FAMILY COURT, A JUNGIAN INTERLUDE, AND THE DREAMING CULTURE OF THE IRO QU O IS ............................................................... 609 A. Wild Dreamer #1 in Family Court Who Dreams of His W ife Exploding ............................................................... 609 B. Wild Dreamer #2 in Family Court Who Only Dreams of T om orrow ........................................................................ 612 C. Wild Dreamer #3 in Family Court Who Dreams of Her Own Murder (and Then Is Killed) ..................................