Highfield, Roger. "The Science of Dreams: the Results." TELEGRAPH January 8, 2008.

More than a century ago, Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, a milestone work that would inspire generations of scientists to examine the connection between the nebulous, hard-to-define mind and the grey, wrinkled organ that sits between our temples. Freud called our dreams the 'royal road to the unconscious.' His seductive idea was that their content is shaped by experiences early in life, creating the hope that psychoanalysis could use our dreams to reveal our childhood miseries, and thereby cure our inner torment. Today, however, a study of dreams conducted for The Daily Telegraph by Harvard University has come to the inescapable conclusion that Freud put too much emphasis on our formative years. Although dreams are bizarre and otherworldly, they are as likely to be moulded by mundane, humdrum and everyday activities as by life-changing events. . . . Read the whole article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SJWNEMYD4R04LQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/01/scisleep101.xml.