[I am teaching a] lesson on the brain in a center for bullfighters and enthusiasts presided over by Romero Robledo.

They believe that nerve centers are a kind of gelatin and that the soul is everything.

I try to prove that the brain possesses a structure.

Dreadful inconsistency.

AFTERWORD

Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Nobel Prize winner for his work in neurology; he essentially discovered the neuron. For decades, Cajal disputed Freud's dream theories.

After retirement, he planned to publish a dream-journal that would disprove Freud's claim that every dream disguises a wish. Cajal thought instead that neurons who'd been squelched all day, that hold old memories or odd associations (including the occasional taboo desire, but generally random) find sleep a time to get harmless exercise, and we experience their workout-orgy as a dream. For Cajal, dreams mean nothing. This was one he felt proved his point. I don't know--I see two meanings.

1. It expresses his frustration with those who fall for Freud's unscientific... bull.
2. It means his dreams have a sense of humor--and wish the waking Cajal did.

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