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50: śramaņa, Vol 63, No. 3, July-Sep. 2012 The Jain source of dreams includes ‘Anupa'as a source which means area with surplus water. Freud had not clearly mentioned about any such source but he believed in the role of environment and out of four kinds of sources that he referred to external sensory stimuli as a source. The deity's role as a source of dream has also not been in Freud's study of dreams. Previous experiences, waking memory, earliest impression of childhood, recent experiences indifferent materials-all make the material or become sources of dreams. Regarding typical dreams, Freud has discussed about few dreams, like the dreams of climbing, falling, death, flying through the air, dream of water, and examination etc. as the typical one. By 'typical', he means the dreams that often occur to many people. The fourteen auspicious dreams seen by the mothers of twenty four tīrthankaras or other great men can also be taken under typical dreams. Since they are seen by all the mothers of great men and few of them are more probable to occur like dream of 'lion' or 'ox' is so common in mythological stories that every women who conceives the future hero of the play or story on history in her womb sees the dream of lion or ox etc. and becomes happy that she is possessing great soul in her womb. But it cannot be held necessary that such dream always carry a special meaning. They may also mean differently. They can be included in typical kinds of dreams.
Regarding the dreams that occur to mothers of tīrthankaras or similar other dreams, Freud's has given no such conception. Although he mentioned in Interpretation of Dreams that even Freud's mother had dreamt a dream when Freud was in her womb which was read as predictive dream and it was interpreted that the being in the womb would be some great personality.20 Most probably such concepts cannot be dragged to empirical study hence Freud kept such issues in margin. Dream Work in Freudian and Jain Theories Freud has explained the dream work very exclusively. The appearance or perception of images or events or sounds, and many other experiences that takes place in dream when all external senses are in sleeping mode,
