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Delusion (n.) has two marks shared with dreaming: a spontaneous, almost automatic action of the mind, and a vicious, irregular association of ideas.
A Dream (n.) can turn a feather tickling the lips into a mask of pitch torn off with the skin.
A Dream (n.) is to thinking what chorea and paralytic tremors are to movement — a series of degradations of the reasoning faculty.
A Dream (n.) shows man to himself in his native nakedness and poverty: suspend the will, and he becomes the plaything of every passion his conscience, honour and fear defend him from by day.
A Dream (n.) returns man to a state of nature — the man of instinct; and the less acquired ideas have penetrated him, the more the impulses opposed to them rule his nights.
A Homecoming (n.) after twenty years is rehearsed the night before in a dream of an unknown place and stranger — both, it turns out, remembered from childhood.
Hypnagogic hallucination (n.) needs only a second's lapse of attention: the hungry dieter sees a fork helping itself from a plate, and then dreams of a well-spread table loud with forks.
Superstition (n.) attacked vehemently in one's writings may claim one as its victim in one's dreams.
Vice (n.) I resist awake and often defeat, I always yield to in dreams — acting under its pressure without fear or remorse, since my absent will makes no attempt to repress it.