…Dreaming that you make memoranda, denotes that you will engage in an unprofitable business, and much worry will result for you. To see others making a memorandum, signifies that some person will worry you with appeals for aid. To lose your memorandum, you will experience a slight loss in trade. To find a memorandum, you will assume new duties that will cause much pleasure to others….

…To dream that you’re writing a memorandum suggests that you´ll try to participate in risky and unproductive businesses. To dream that others are writing a memorandum suggests that someone will cause you some discomfort, as you’ll be required an unfounded matter. To dream that you find a memorandum that was lost indicates that you’re about to lose something important, either in your sentimental life or in your business….

…while bathing in the sea.”The other dream, which occurred only last year, was to this effect: I was riding outside an omnibus in London when a bat suddenly flew past me. All my fellow-passengers cried out in a chorus, ‘How remarkable! A bat!’ and I awoke actually repeating those words. I was so impressed that I jotted down the dream in my memorandum book. Exactly a week later, I received tidings of my father’s death: he had been thrown from a trap, whilst descending a steep hill near Dublin, and killed on the spot. “In reference to motionless bats, a lady informed me, that one night she dreamed her counterpane was covered with bats, and bats being her pet aversion, she was so terrified that she immediately awoke, to find her whole body bathed in perspiration. The following day, she learned that an aunt to whom she was greatly attached…