"You get a feel from a dream for the soul of the dreamer," said Dr. Melvin Lansky, a clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A.'s medical school, in a telephone interview from his office in Los Angeles. "One thinks that this dreamer is ambitious, hard-driving, feeling like 'all the pressure's on me,' and maybe struggling with the part of himself that wants to relax, even goof off. And what makes the mind distraught are the feelings, 'I can't do it, I'm not prepared.' And, 'It's my fault.' So you get the guilt, the shame, the feeling of being exposed. I'll bet Prince Charles wouldn't have such dreams. His place doesn't depend on merit."