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An Allegory (n.) is one of the dream's own activities: a tendency to re-interpret its material in allegorical terms.
Memory (n.) as dreams reveal it loses nothing: whatever we have once mentally possessed — even the most insignificant impression — leaves an unalterable trace, forever liable to reappear.
Thought (n.) had in dreams is had awake too — so the Roman Emperor was right to execute the man who dreamt of assassinating him.
Truth (n.) lives in dreams, said Scholz: asleep we come to know ourselves as we are, beneath every disguise we wear for the world.