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The House
of Dreams—Fallacies in the Study of Dreams—Is it
possible to Study Dreams?—How Fallacies may be Avoided—Do
we always Dream during Sleep?—The Two Main Sources of Dreams
with their Sub-divisions, 1
CHAPTER
II
THE ELEMENTS OF DREAM LIFE
The Spontaneous Procession of Dream Imagery—Its
Kaleidoscopic Character—Attention in Dreams—Relation
of Drug Visions and Hypnagogic Imagery to Dreaming—Colour in
Dreams—The Fusion of Dream Imagery—Compared to
Dissolving Views—Sources of the Imagery—Various types
of Fusion—The Sub-Conscious Element in Dreaming—Verbal
Transformations as Links in Dream Imagery—The Reduplication
of Visual Imagery in Motor and other Terms, 20
All Dreaming is a Process of Reasoning—The Fundamental
Character of Reasoning—Reasoning as a Synthesis of Images—Dream
Reasoning Instinctive and Automatic—It is also Consciously
carried on—This a result of the Fundamental Split in
Intelligence—Dissociation—Dreaming as a Disturbance of
Apperception, 56
CHAPTER
IV
THE SENSES IN DREAMS
All Dreams probably contain both Presentative and Representative
Elements—The Influence of Tactile Sensations on Dreams—Dreams
excited by Auditory Stimuli—Dreams aroused by Odours and
Tastes—The Influence of Visual Stimuli—Difficulty of
distinguishing between Actual and Imagined Sensory Excitations—The
Influence of Internal Visceral Stimuli on Dreaming—Erotic
Dreams—Vesical Dreams—Cardiac Dreams and their
Symbolism—Prodromic Dreams—Prophetic Dreams, 71
Emotion and Imagination—How Stimuli are transformed into
Emotion—Somnambulism—The Failure of Movement in Dreams—Nightmare—Influence
of the approach of Awakening on imagined Dream movements—The
Magnification of Imagery—Peripheral and Cerebral Conditions
combine to produce this Imaginative Heightening—Emotion in
Sleep also Heightened—Dreams formed to explain Heightened
Emotions of unknown origin—The fundamental Place of Emotion
in Dreams—Visceral and especially Gastric disturbance as a
source of Emotion—Symbolism in Dreams—The Dreamer's
Moral Attitude—Why Murder so often takes place in Dreams—Moral
Feeling not Abolished in Dreams though sometimes Impaired, 94
Dreams of Flying and Falling—Their Peculiar Vividness—Dreams
of Flying an Alleged Survival of Primeval Experiences—Best
explained as based on Respiratory Sensations combined with
Cutaneous Anaesthesia—The Explanation of Dreams of Falling—The
Sensation of Levitation sometimes experienced by Ecstatic Saints—Also
experienced at the Moment of Death, 129
The Dramatisation of Subjective Feelings Based on Dissociation—Analogies
in Waking Life—The Synaesthesias and Number-forms—Symbolism
in Language—In Music—The Organic Basis of Dream
Symbolism—The Omnipotence of Symbolism—Oneiromancy—The
Scientific Interpretation of Dreams—Why Symbolism prevails
in Dreaming—Freud's Theory of Dreaming—Dreams as
Fulfilled Wishes—Why this Theory cannot be applied to all
Dreaming—The Complete Form of Symbolism in Dreams—Splitting
up of Personality—Self-objectivation in Imaginary
Personalities—The Dramatic Element in Dreams—Hallucinations—Multiple
Personality—Insanity—Self-objectivation a Primitive
Tendency—Its Survival in Civilisation, 148
Mental Dissociation during sleep—Illustrated by the Dream of
Returning to School Life—The Typical Dream of a Dead Friend—Examples—Early
Records of this Type of Dream—Analysis of such Dreams—Atypical
Forms—The Consolation sometimes afforded by Dreams of the
Dead—Ancient Legends of this Dream Type—The Influence
of Dreams on the Belief of Primitive Man in the Survival of the
Dead, 194
The Apparent Rapidity of Thought in Dreams—This Phenomenon
largely due to the Dream being a Description of a Picture—The
Experience of Drowning Persons—The Sense of Time in Dreams—The
Crumpling of Consciousness in Dreams—The Recovery of Lost
Memories through the Relaxation of Attention—The Emergence
in Dreams of Memories not known to Waking Life—The
Recollection of Forgotten Languages in Sleep—The Perversions
of Memory in Dreams—Paramnesic False
Recollections—Hypnagogic Paramnesia—Dreams mistaken
for Actual Events—The Phenomenon of Pseudo-Reminiscence—Its
Relationship to Epilepsy—Its Prevalence especially among
Imaginative and Nervously Exhausted Persons—The Theories put
forward to Explain it—A Fatigue Product—Conditioned by
Defective Attention and Apperception—Pseudo-Reminiscence a
reversed Hallucination, 212
The Fundamental Nature of Dreaming—Insanity and Dreaming—The
Child's Psychic State and the Dream State—Primitive Thought
and Dreams—Dreaming and Myth-Making—Genius and Dreams—Dreaming
as a Road into the Infinite, 261
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