| Show points taught by dreams thoughts and deeds of our waking libei influence the couro of slumbers 1 lake vision of the night useful basss A bi an exhaust ive analysis and apsy chloal basis says the medical sums up his views in part s to sum up the argument dream nind waking dit ter ip degree tion only not in 1 and essence like waking conscious less dream re but does t the same world that in only the viewpoints alon are changed As the life indi vidual in his receives its character and value by and through his power of response to environment so in a similar way the value of a dream depends upon the power of the ego to respond to con ness in its various forms of emotions ideas and feelings which constitute the environments of the subjective or dream plane waking or dreaming the individual is or be comes what he chooses to be at any given moment ol 01 his existence the background tor ordinary dreams consists of undigested rem nants of waging life hence ardi nary dreams are merely undigested life being made up by longings de sires anticipations idle hopes and miscarried relations which occupy ing the mind during the day are over taken by sleep before having reached their fruition hence the mixture in most dreams ol 01 the sane and the in sane of truth and delusion on the other band the life lived out and assimilated in a purposeful ex istance becomes absorbed in the tor mation of character and leaves no residue to form the bizarre staging for the confused dream and to such an individual the intuitions of dream life with their dazzling imagery will introduce symbols a properly in may carry the significance of prevision or prophecy therefore to turn dreams into useful intelligent and intelligible factors we must fill our waking life with deeds and thoughts of universal usefulness and freight the train of events with an unflinching devotion to duty and vir tue |
