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such circumstances to carry on the routine work of the organism. The automatism of will itself then acts as a sentinel, and mounts guard over the system, so that when any discordant element tries to penetrate into the organism, or when danger is imminent, it offers resistance, and thereby creates sufficient disturbance to attract the attention of intelligence, which again mounts the bridge to take the direction of events into its own hands.
The above is a somewhat metaphorical description of what actually takes place at the time. In reality, the will itself becomes transformed into reason on being disturbed, like a person roused into activity from the torpor of sleep. There is no question even of the withdrawing of attention from the outside world on the part of the ego in dreaming, for dreams occur when the torpor of deep-sleep caused by the benumbing influence of matter on the soul is somewhat lessened. Deprived of its natural 'vigour,' the ego is also then deprived of deliberate choice and voluntary action.
So far as the blending of the inner psychic states with the physical stimulus is concerned, Freud points out that
"the dream activity is under a compulsion to elaborate all the dream stimuli which are simultaneously present into a unified whole. ............... When two or more experiences capable of making an impression have been left over from the previous day, the wishes which result from them are united into one dream; similarly, an impression possessing psychic value and the indifferent experiences of the previous day are united in the dream material, provided there are available connecting ideas between the two. Thus the dream appears to be a reaction to every thing which is simultaneously present as actual in the sleeping mind............... The stimuli which appear during sleep are worked over into the fulfilment of a wish,
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