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PATIENT: Doctor, I’ve come to you because I think I have a strange disease.

DOCTOR: What is it?

PATIENT: I have been afraid of noise and strong light for two years. When I’m exposed to these, I feel tense and restless.

DOCTOR: Do you have other symptoms?

PATIENT: Yes. At times I suffer from palpitations and shortness of breath. I sleep poorly and am troubled almost nightly by frightening dreams.

DOCTOR: What sort of dreams do you have?

PATIENT: They are different. For instance, once I dreamed that I fell down from a precipice. On another occasion I was chased by a wolf, and in other dreams I have lost my way in a desert.

—adapted from A Dialogue in the Hospitals