In the dream this magic cup was outside the prison, pouring out enormous quantities of nourishing liquid. It was clear that the torments would end at the moment the cream of wheat reached the window and started flowing in. Free associations arising from this dream included the Spanish Inquisition and the ingenious torture instruments used; the instinctual life of apes; many oral themes, including the buccal repositories of hamsters; and details concerning a Czech king who spent his entire life in prison. Various concrete childhood incidents, involving discomfort in erogenous zones, were also recalled: the mouth being burned by hot milk, an operation for fimosis, painful enemas, and others. The analyst consequently interpreted the dream as a composite formation condensing all the interferences with libidinal satisfaction which the analysand suffered in early life.

This explanation appeared superficial and unsatisfactory. Later the elements of the dream reappeared in a high dose LSD session and made perfect sense in the context of the birth trauma. The dungeon is the delivering uterus and the tortures will end when the nursing stage is reached. Identification with the king illustrates the connection between birth and the child-king archetype ("crowning"). Identification with monkeys and their uninhibited biological indulgence points to the unleashing of a variety of instinctual impulses (polymorphous perversion) in the perinatal process.