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billiard-table. From this comes those absurd dreams where an object remains as it is and at the same time becomes something else. As I have just said, the mind, confronted by these absurd visions, seeks an explanation and often thereby aggravates the incoherence,"
As regards the abolition of the sense of time, Prof. Bergson points out:
“When we are awake we live a life in common with onr fellows Our attention to this external and social life is the great regulator of the succession of our internal states. It is like the balance wheel of a watch, which moderates and cuts into regular sections the undivided, almost instantaneous tension of the spring. It is this balance wheel which is lacking in the dream."
To sum up the conclusions arrived at by us concerning the psychic apparatus of dreams, we may say that the same mental faculties are concerned in dreaming as in perception, provided we do not forget that of the three constituents of mind, intellect is drowsy* and fatigued, will is like the child who fain would play but is afraid to disturb those sleeping in its vicinity, and attention assumes the form of a night light, burning low and dim and casting mysterious shadows all round. We should not further forget that this three-fold division is not intended to represent three separate and altogether independent entities or organs ; the thing working throughout the mental operations is only one--- the power, force or faculty of intelligence though it is known by different names in different conditions and aspects. Whenever, therefore, we find ourselves in difficulties over the delimitation of boundaries between
* In deep-sleep intellect is merged in will which becomes quiescent and passive, and attention is switched off, so to speak. It is this fact of the suspension of intellect in deep-sleep which the ancient Jewish writers symbolized by Cain's building his house in. the Land of Nod, as already explained in an earlier chapter,
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