In fact, Freud believed that one of his dreams helped him cure a patient. “Simply Psychology” goes into detail about Freud's dream. He had blamed himself for not finding a cure for a young woman named Irma. One night Freud dreamed that he met his patient in a bar and visited her. After a few moments, he saw the formula for a drug that another doctor had given Irma. At that moment he realized that it had nothing to do with Irma's failure to recover, and that it was the other doctor's fault for using a dirty syringe. This dream alleviated Freud's guilt and he interpreted it as a wish fulfillment. Freud had wished that he was not the cause of Irma's poor condition, and the dream fulfilled his wish by showing him that it was another doctor's fault ("Sigmund