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Drowsiness (n.) turns even abstract thoughts into pictorial images that try to say the same thing.
A Functional phenomenon (n.) is the drowsy thinker's image depicting not his thought but his effort — Kant's argument becomes a disobliging secretary who refuses to look up.
A Functional phenomenon (n.) appears between sleep and waking, when the dream represents not a thought but the dreamer's own state — his fatigue, his struggle against sleep.
The Functional phenomenon (n.) is a drowsy thinker's vision that pictures not his thought but his state: trying to recall an opinion, Silberer saw a sullen secretary refusing to help.
Half-sleep (n.) dreams itself as a man who steps across a brook with one foot and draws it back to stay on this side.
Synchronicity (n.) are partly unconscious arrangements and partly unconscious, arbitrary interpretations.
Thought (n.) slips away in a sleepy mind and leaves a picture in its place — revising an uneven essay becomes planing a piece of wood.