A lady gipsy interprets the dreams of a doctor's patients, but are her readings any more true than her psychic pronouncements?
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02:10Oh, those pitiful stairs. So soon after lunch, too.
02:15I hope you haven't strained your poor heart.
02:17My dear, I've strained every part of me.
02:20Oh, my wedding ring.
02:40I made the appointment in my maiden name.
02:43But why, dear?
02:44Well, you see, if I had written to Lady Avon,
02:47they could have looked my husband up in the parish
02:49and found out practically all about me.
02:51Oh, how clever of you.
02:53Yes.
02:54From the parish, he's promised for all charlatan.
02:56But I've been told by the Duchess that this woman is simply wonderful.
03:00Is Lord Avon back from Australia?
03:02No.
03:03He's waiting until the new gold-mining concession is through.
03:07And poor Paul has had to put his wedding off.
03:10Yes, he's simply furious with his father.
03:13Now, don't call me Lady Avon by mistake.
03:16Remember, I'm Miss Little.
03:47Miss Graham will sit here, please.
03:52Oh, no.
03:54I said, Miss Graham.
04:02Now, how did you know that I am Miss Graham?
04:07Few secrets are kept from a truly psychic.
04:13Give me your hand.
04:15Now, I'm not going to help you.
04:24What is written in the line of destiny will be fulfilled.
04:29You have had a sheltered life, too sheltered.
04:34As a young girl, you were vigorous and energetic.
04:39You thought nothing of dancing until the early hours of the morning.
04:42No, no, I did.
04:44I did it till my...
04:45Until your child was born.
04:49Oh, but I'm Miss...
04:51Miss...
04:52Miss Graham.
04:55You were Miss Graham.
04:58You married a man from whom you are parted.
05:01Oceans flow between you.
05:04And across those waters come his thoughts.
05:09Kind thoughts.
05:11Your heart gives you some trouble.
05:15It palpitates, it flutters.
05:18Yes, you know, that's quite true.
05:21Even coming up your stairs was almost too much for me.
05:24Do not let it distress you.
05:27Your line of life is excellent.
05:30You will live to a great age.
05:32Are you quite sure?
05:34Quite.
05:37Your maternal instinct is highly developed.
05:40Oh, yes, that's perfectly true.
05:43You are worried about your son's future.
05:47He is about to take a very serious step
05:51that will part him from you.
05:53Amazing!
05:55My darling Paul is getting married.
05:59Not yet.
06:02There is a delay.
06:04A delay to do with a journey across water.
06:11Gold is delaying his wedding.
06:13Gold buried deep in the earth.
06:17But why should it?
06:18Your son is not poor.
06:20It's extraordinary!
06:22Do you know his father is actually in Australia
06:24arranging a mining concession?
06:26And of course the wedding can't take place until his return.
06:29But I do fear this.
06:30Will the marriage be a success?
06:33Why is the orange blossom and church bell ringing?
06:38Tell your son to be careful of a road accident.
06:41Is he going to be killed?
06:44No.
06:47But in the future, the dim future,
06:51too far ahead to give a date yet,
06:54your son changes his name.
06:57He becomes a German.
07:00But that doesn't make sense.
07:04A German.
07:06A von...
07:08A von...
07:11Avon.
07:12Oh!
07:13But...
07:15But...
07:17Oh, my poor darling.
07:21Oh, that's better.
07:22I'm all right.
07:23Much all right.
07:24You see, I am Lady Avon.
07:27Of course one day my son will inherit the title.
07:30You know, I don't think I can take in any more just now.
07:33It's been such a revelation.
07:35You've been quite wonderful.
07:37Now, do tell me, when may I make another appointment?
07:43Friday at noon.
07:46Good.
07:47I want to consult you about my husband's private life.
07:52I understand.
07:56Mind how you go down the stairs, dear.
07:58They're dreadfully steep.
07:59Don't be a fool, Mary.
08:01If I had been going to break my neck on the stairs,
08:03it would have been foretold.
08:05Friday at noon.
08:07I'll be with you, most beautiful lady.
08:14Good fat fee as usual?
08:16Carlo, I hate it.
08:18Ah, don't be foolish.
08:19They've had their money's worth anyhow.
08:20What are you worrying about?
08:22From the dawn of history, we've fooled them.
08:24From the dawn of history, we've been psychic.
08:27Give me a crystal to gaze into,
08:29and I could be of some use in this world.
08:32But that, my dear, is against the law.
08:34Palmistry is a science.
08:37Why worry about giving real vision to people who have no vision?
08:39Why tell the secrets of Egypt to people like that,
08:41brainless, pampered...
08:46Good fat fee as usual?
08:58Yes.
08:59Sir Henry Martin, psychologist.
09:02Sir Henry Martin, here?
09:04Yes.
09:05Got a woman with him, too, outside.
09:07She looks half crazy.
09:09Someone needs my help.
09:11Show him in.
09:13All right.
09:20Sir Henry Martin.
09:30To what do I owe the honor of this visit, Sir Henry?
09:33I have a patient outside for whom I can do nothing.
09:37She is the victim of a reoccurring nightmare.
09:39But why come to me?
09:41Because you are of untainted gypsy blood,
09:45and the gypsy is all that is left of ancient Egypt.
09:48That is true.
09:50For 3,000 years, you have wandered, nomads,
09:54settling nowhere, always moving on.
09:57You have not intermarried with the tribes amongst whom you dwelt,
10:01but speaking your own secret tongue.
10:05And true to your early traditions,
10:07you have inherited that wisdom which was Egypt in the time of the pharaohs.
10:11You believe that?
10:12I know it.
10:15I want you to interpret my patient's dream.
10:20You believe that dreams can be read?
10:23Yes, for every dream has a meaning,
10:26if we can solve the riddle.
10:28I will see your patient.
10:30I am more than grateful.
10:39This way, my dear.
10:42There.
10:44I am hoping very much that our troubles will now be solved.
10:48You're an optimist, Sir Henry.
10:50You do not believe that I can read your nightmares, huh?
10:54Frankly, no.
10:57Do you ever read your Bible?
11:00Yes.
11:02No.
11:04Well, I did when I was at school. Why?
11:11Will you look into this globe?
11:14Yes, if you want to.
11:18Look close into it,
11:20and make your mind a blank.
11:34And Joseph was brought from prison and sent before Pharaoh.
11:40And Joseph was brought from prison and sent before Pharaoh.
11:46I can interpret thy dreams, O Pharaoh,
11:49for I too am a dreamer of dreams.
11:52Wherefore my brethren cast me into a pit
11:55with my coat of many colors and sold me into bondage.
11:59Thy dream, Lord of the upper and lower Nile, is a warning.
12:03God has showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
12:07The seven fat kind are the seven years of plenty
12:11that shall come in thy land.
12:13And the seven lean kind are seven years of famine
12:17that shall follow them.
12:19And the plenty shall be forgotten in the land,
12:22and famine shall consume it.
12:25Therefore, O Pharaoh,
12:27go gather of the food of these good years.
12:31Build granaries to store thy plenty
12:34against the famine which shall come.
12:37That starvation, peradventure,
12:39shall pass by Pharaoh and his people,
12:42and the land perish not in the famine.
12:49And Pharaoh did as the Lord commanded
12:52with servant Joseph.
12:57I don't know how you did that,
12:59but Pharaoh's dream is just a poetical Eastern way of putting it.
13:03Are you quite sure?
13:05Have you ever heard of Jessica Brown's dream
13:08at the Siege of Lucknow?
13:10No, why?
13:17Look.
13:34Ah...
13:48Well, you're unlucky, Jo.
13:51I won't get you.
13:54Did you hear them?
13:56The pipes, the pipes!
13:58I heard the pipes!
14:00The pipes! I heard the pipes!
14:03For save! For save!
14:05They're not in the dinner pot, Shirsten.
14:09It's all right. You have no other fever.
14:12I heard the men marching.
14:15For save! For save!
14:31I heard the men marching.
14:34For save! For save!
14:37They're not in the dinner pot, Shirsten.
14:40It's all right. You have no other fever.
14:43I heard the men marching.
14:46For save! For save!
14:49They're not in the dinner pot, Shirsten.
14:52It's all right. You have no other fever.
14:55I heard the men marching.
14:57For save! For save!
15:00They're not in the dinner pot, Shirsten.
15:03No, no, you fool!
15:05Can't you hear the pipes?
15:07The march of the cameramen!
15:13It was not the fever.
15:15It was a dream from God.
15:28Was Jessica Brown's dream just Eastern poetry?
15:33Perhaps I was wrong.
15:37Perhaps you can help me.
15:42I can. Tell me your dream.
15:45May I smoke while I'm talking?
15:47Of course, if it helps you.
15:51My dream is always the same.
15:54Night after night.
15:56It never varies.
15:59My hands are chained.
16:02I'm in a cave that's full of awful shadows.
16:06They creep nearer and nearer.
16:09They creep nearer and nearer.
16:12They creep nearer and nearer.
16:15They creep nearer and nearer.
16:17They creep nearer and nearer.
16:20I know they're going to catch me.
16:22And what is so terrifying is the shadows are just shadows.
16:26I don't know how to explain how uncanny they are.
16:30And then, when I'm nearly dead with terror,
16:34I suddenly find myself free of the chains.
16:37I rush out of the cave and it's all chalk slipping under my feet.
16:42I fall down and down and down.
16:48And then, quite suddenly, I find myself in a massive blossom
16:53and I'm alone in the peaceful countryside.
17:08I realize that I'm in my nightdress.
17:13And then comes the worst part of my dream
17:16because watching through the trees are the most awful, jeering faces
17:21and whichever way I turn, they're still there, still mocking me.
17:38And then I wake, ashamed.
17:41And I don't go to sleep again, I don't.
17:43Can't you see it's driving me mad?
17:47In the past, you have done something you deeply regret.
17:52Something you cannot escape from, hence the chains.
17:58You are afraid you'll be found out.
18:00You do not know by whom, just shadows.
18:04You think you've escaped
18:06and then you find yourself exposed to the real world.
18:11The ridicule of the mob.
18:13What have you ever done in your life
18:15that you are trying to hide, even from yourself?
18:20What have you ever done as a child
18:23that makes you ashamed or afraid?
18:27Nothing, absolutely nothing.
18:29It is your wrists you are trying to get free.
18:32Something is holding your wrists.
18:36What goes round a woman's wrists?
18:39Bangles.
18:43Not bangles.
18:46Gloves.
18:49They fasten round the wrists.
18:52Gloves! Yes, that's it, that's it!
18:55I remember now.
18:57When I was at school, I stole some gloves for a bet from a shop.
19:00I was worried at the time and then afterwards I forgot all about it.
19:03Your subconscious mind did not forget.
19:08You have made the task easy now.
19:10Send conscience money to the shop from which you took the gloves.
19:13And then will I sleep?
19:15Yes, because then your mind will be at rest.
19:20The lady is here, Sir Henry.
19:23Good, Simms.
19:26Ah, there you are. It's a pleasure to see you.
19:29Thank you, Sir Henry.
19:34When I came to your salon the other day, as a psychologist,
19:37I was amazed at your intelligence.
19:40You think a woman can be intelligent?
19:43Yes, I think so.
19:45And I think you are a very intelligent woman.
19:48Yes, I think so.
19:50And I think you are a very intelligent woman.
19:52You think a woman can be intelligent, huh?
19:55Why not?
19:57At any rate, my patient's nightmare has not occurred again.
20:00Poor kid. I think you frighten her.
20:03I frighten her?
20:07But if you had some of the dreams that my patients have,
20:10they would frighten you.
20:12I wonder.
20:14I've made a selection from some of my cases.
20:17Will you interpret them for me?
20:19I thank you for the compliments, Sir Henry.
20:37Now, this, for example.
20:41Dorothy Blaine, Kimbolden Road, Bedford.
20:45Age 24, unmarried.
20:47Normal medical history.
20:50My patient finds herself in a tunnel
20:53through which she gazes up at the housetops of some mean quarter.
20:57She fades into a phantom, wandering aimlessly along
21:01and finds her real self alone in a beautiful garden.
21:06Everything blurs.
21:08She is seated outside an old country inn.
21:11Beer appears. Beer everywhere.
21:21She hears a commanding voice which declares,
21:24Beer is good for your son.
21:27Is your patient married?
21:29No, not even engaged.
21:31The beer vanishes.
21:34A bag appears.
21:39It contains lingerie and shoes.
21:44And as fast as she unpacks it, the clothes repack themselves.
21:50And that is the dream that reoccurs night after night.
21:58I can find no medical or nervous reason for this dream.
22:02It is plainly a message to Dorothy
22:05to do the opposite of what she is doing
22:08and is therefore revealed in opposite.
22:12Dorothy hates beer.
22:15The opposite to hate is love.
22:19Her son was well.
22:21Dorothy has no son.
22:23But the opposite to son is father.
22:26The dream was a warning that he was ill.
22:30That was why she was happy to be packing to go away.
22:34The opposite. She would be unhappy unless she packed
22:38and went home.
22:40That is exactly what did happen.
22:43Dorothy Blaine had a telegram the day after her dream
22:46that her father was ill.
22:50Lewis. Margaret Lewis.
22:53The Parade, Cardiff. 19, unmarried.
22:56Pneumonia as a child.
22:58Now I'd like your opinion on this case.
23:02Now this girl has a perfectly happy family life.
23:06No worries. She is healthy and loves exercise.
23:09And yet she dreams that she constantly vanishes
23:12during her dream walks.
23:20This distresses her mentally and finally
23:23she finds herself on the very edge of a cliff
23:27and feels impelled to hurl herself
23:30down onto the beach below.
23:38Hands pull her back in the nick of time.
23:43The dream changes.
23:45She finds herself walking through goths
23:47which tears her unclothed limbs.
23:55Then everything becomes old world.
24:04She knocks at the door of a picturesque cottage
24:07but before it can be opened she vanishes.
24:10Well?
24:12To dream of the fear of falling over a cliff.
24:17Means that Margaret's refusing to admit
24:20the deep affection
24:22for the man she really loves.
24:25The hand that grasped her
24:27is her own foolish vanity
24:29that is holding her back from happiness.
24:32And the ghost through which she walks
24:35is her own dripping fear
24:37of losing his love.
24:40The dream was a warning
24:42not to delay too long
24:44for romance may vanish
24:47like she herself in her dream.
24:50You mean I should advise her to marry this man?
24:55Mm-hmm.
24:57Because she's deeply in love with him.
25:00What is the next letter?
25:04Joan Lawley, Market Street, Manchester
25:07who's had an amusing dream.
25:10Now this dream begins in complete confusion.
25:13Money, an arch, a passing car
25:16and a tiller of a boat all jumbled up.
25:19Her first clear impression
25:21is of crossing a bridge
25:23which swings away from the bank
25:25preventing her landing.
25:30Again confusion
25:33until a huge hand
25:35flings her into a horse trap.
25:37She is in her pajamas.
25:41How very embarrassing.
25:43On the contrary
25:45she thoroughly enjoys
25:47this early morning tea
25:49the maid brings her.
26:01A very simple one, Sir Henry.
26:04She never concentrated
26:06on one thing at a time
26:08and confusion in her mind
26:10jumbles up a number
26:12of half-observed impressions.
26:14The bridge that swings away
26:16means that she must
26:18grasp her opportunities more quickly
26:21and the end of her dream
26:23in her subconscious ego saying
26:25don't be so timid
26:27do as you like
26:29even if you want to have tea in a horse trap.
26:32You are perfectly right.
26:34Joan Lawley is the most restless
26:36of all my patients.
26:38There is nothing
26:40or anything that will keep her
26:42in one place for a few minutes.
26:44A very good idea.
26:46Now here is a rather more serious case.
26:49A patient of mine dreaming
26:51repeatedly of wandering
26:53through a cemetery.
26:55The whole world has changed
26:57into a vast graveyard
26:59and she is the only person
27:01left alive.
27:03She is alone.
27:05There is no one
27:07The graves give place
27:09to high yew trees
27:11which tower dark and sinister
27:13around her
27:15and in her dream
27:17she is oppressed
27:19by a terrible melancholia.
27:30Holding her throbbing temples
27:32she wanders
27:34half distraught
27:36out into the roadway.
27:42In the dead and uninhabited world
27:44a car
27:46without a driver
27:48inviting
27:54she accepts.
28:03Her wanderings over
28:05relaxes and is mercifully
28:07carried away
28:09from the cemetery
28:11and the yew trees.
28:15A dream of ill omen
28:17to dream of yew trees
28:19and graves
28:21is a symbol of nervous trouble
28:23and the car
28:25arriving without a driver
28:27shows clearly
28:29that your patient
28:31is refusing the help
28:33and sympathy of others.
28:35I didn't say that she was
28:37very young
28:39but how did you know?
28:41Dreams of cemeteries
28:43very rarely occur
28:45after the age of 20.
28:47That's true.
28:51A man
28:53dreams that he is on a seat
28:55by the roadside.
28:57He cannot move
28:59he cannot think
29:01he has completely lost
29:02and the woman
29:04beats herself beside him.
29:06While he is striving
29:08to make his brain function
29:10the endless noise
29:12of passing traffic
29:14beats incessantly
29:16through his head.
29:18In despair
29:20he turns to the woman
29:22for help
29:24and she vanishes.
29:26The traffic ceases
29:28and he gives way
29:30Well?
29:32Another youthful neurotic
29:34the traffic
29:36is a solution to that dream
29:38tell the young man
29:40to give up sleeping draught.
29:42How did you know he took them?
29:44Quite simple
29:46in the early dawn
29:48an express train passes
29:50near to his house
29:52it does not wake him
29:54but his half-doped mind
29:56receives the impression
29:58he took the sleeping draught
30:00to avoid.
30:02Fine, George, I believe you're right.
30:04It is the only possible reason
30:06because dreams of noises
30:08in traffic
30:10have no psychic meaning at all.
30:12Tell me
30:14what guides you
30:16in your interpretation
30:18of these dreams?
30:20Dreams are roughly
30:22divided into two classes
30:24dreams of good
30:26and dreams of evil.
30:28First
30:30then they become
30:32dreams of warning
30:34and if that warning is taken
30:36then the good
30:38triumphs over evil.
30:40Let us take for example
30:42lucky dreams
30:44caravans are very lucky
30:46No gypsy would ever say
30:48anything against caravans
30:50It is true
30:52they are always moving
30:54on to a fresh place
30:55A dream of a pig
30:57is very good
30:59Why?
31:01It is well known
31:03that people wear
31:05little pigs
31:07as lucky charms
31:09But why should that be?
31:11Because a man
31:13who owns a pig
31:15owns a cottage
31:17on a farm
31:19and is near to nature
31:21Now trains
31:23are lucky
31:25Church steeples are lucky
31:27for they are rising upwards
31:29and denote ambition
31:31What about policemen?
31:33I dreamt of the police last night
31:35Lucky if they are helping
31:37the law abiding
31:39Now to dream of a pavement artist
31:41is marvellous
31:43It means however lowly
31:45your condition
31:47your soul remains lofty
31:49Dream of a window being cleaned
31:51means that your outlook
31:53means that your patience
31:55will be rewarded
31:57Oh that reminds me
31:59to dream of riding on a horseback
32:01indicates a rise in life
32:03Monkeys are lucky
32:05I shouldn't have thought so
32:07They are mischievous and destructive
32:09It can be traced back
32:11to the sacred monkeys of Asia
32:13And to dream of silver mugs
32:15Lucky unless turned down
32:17The cup is a symbol
32:19of true friendship
32:21And so are flowers
32:23They are faded
32:25A haystack is a symbol
32:27of good health and long life
32:29And so the ploughing of the land
32:31denotes progress in business
32:33I don't quite see why
32:35Because in due time
32:37the earth will yield
32:39a bountiful crop
32:41in return for labours already done
32:43Yes it's quite quite
32:45A style means
32:47that your way
32:49will be quite easy for you
32:50A woodland glade
32:52foretells a peaceful solution
32:54to present worries
32:58Cows are a good omen
33:00This dream has survived
33:02from the days
33:04the Aryan races migrated
33:06from Central Asia
33:08In India the cow
33:10is still regarded as sacred
33:12Hmm that's interesting
33:20The dream of being
33:22in a stranded boat
33:24is unlucky
33:26Unless the dream
33:28shows some way of escape
33:30Then it is lucky
33:38And then Sir Henry
33:40we have our unlucky dreams
33:42But they must be dreamt
33:44more than once
33:46to have a meaning
33:48It is terribly unlucky
33:50to dream of falling water
33:52But why?
33:54It is running to waste
33:56and that means
33:58that a dreamer's plans
34:00will go wrong
34:02One patient of mine
34:04dreamt of a disused factory
34:06His plans will come to nothing
34:08That's just what happened
34:10Now this is funny Sir Henry
34:12Nearly everyone who dreams
34:14of fruit blossom
34:16They dream that their plans
34:18will be nipped in the bud
34:20and they will never reach fruition
34:22Does that apply to orange blossom?
34:24No
34:26for that is a symbol of matrimony
34:28Telegraph poles
34:30foretell bad news on its way
34:32And to dream of geese
34:34is a sign that malicious gossip
34:36is being talked about one
34:38What about other birds
34:40such as ducks?
34:42The swan or the moorhen
34:44are lucky
34:46A warning that some loved one
34:48will become indifferent
34:50Now to take a case of mine
34:52who is always dreaming
34:54of an old man eating
34:56by the roadside
34:58A warning that he himself
35:00will drift downwards
35:02unless he rouses himself
35:04to fresh efforts
35:06To dream of a century
35:08means that someone
35:10is barring one's way
35:12To dream of a lake
35:14is unlucky
35:16to dream about
35:18They mean that one
35:20is at the mercy
35:22of every wind that blows
35:24Litter bins
35:26mean the ruin
35:28of some plan
35:30And the letterboxes
35:32that some cherished scheme
35:34will disappear
35:36In short Sir Henry
35:38to dream of anything
35:40going away from one
35:42denotes that bad luck
35:43Dreams of warning
35:45Warnings are recognisable
35:47for they are usually
35:49clear and easy to read
35:51Guns
35:53To dream of a gun
35:55menacing a peaceful
35:57country mansion
35:59is a warning not to believe
36:01in what seems at present
36:03so secure
36:05A barking dog
36:07is a friendly warning
36:09for the dog
36:11You said to dream of cows
36:13was lucky
36:15but what about a headless cow
36:17A death in the family
36:19To dream of a fire
36:21foretells a love quarrel
36:23in which all affection
36:25will be destroyed
36:27unless the dreamer
36:29tries to see the loved one's
36:31point of view
36:33If the engine arrives
36:35before the building
36:37is gutted
36:38Dreams are unlucky in dreams
36:40for they denote sleep
36:42They mean that one's business
36:44will fail through the careless
36:46indifference of one's business
36:48associates
36:50To dream of an athlete
36:52turning his back on one
36:54is a warning of an enemy
36:56at work
36:58Ruins are a health warning
37:00and the dreamer
37:02should get overhauled
37:04by a doctor
37:06To dream of a train
37:08disappearing into a tunnel
37:10means that one is
37:12obstinately blinding oneself
37:14to the truth
37:16I admit I am very puzzled
37:18Most of your readings
37:20I can link up with
37:22the neurotic or physical
37:24conditions of my patients
37:26But some of them
37:28are warnings about the future
37:30Why not
37:32The future and the past
37:34Then why can't you foretell
37:36well, the winner of the derby
37:38Because dreams are
37:40for the guidance
37:42of the individual
37:44not the ruin of the bookmakers
37:46And yet
37:48many people claim
37:50to have dreamt
37:52the name of the winner
37:54Now take a horse
37:56like Street Cry
37:58A woman hears
38:00her husband mention it
38:02She runs out of coal
38:04to Street Cry
38:06He arrives
38:08That night she dreams
38:10of Street Cry
38:12It wins
38:14And she tells everyone
38:16There are many people
38:18dream of the losers
38:20But they do not talk
38:22about them
38:24Oh no
38:26Supper is served
38:28Sir Henry
38:30Thank you, Simms
38:34Lobster
38:36How lovely
38:38What if it gives you nightmare
38:40What will that dream mean
38:42Nothing at all
38:44Evil dreams have to happen
38:46three times
38:48before they mean anything