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Affect (n.) comes unstuck from images in sleep: things, persons and places are reproduced in great numbers, but none carries its feeling with it, and they float about the mind at their own sweet will.
Association (n.) rules dreams more nakedly than waking: dreams run by the laws of bare ideas, untouched by reflection, common sense, taste or moral judgement.
Childhood (n.) lies buried under the deepest piles of débris, from which dreams bring up pictures of places, things and people completely intact, with all their original freshness.
Childhood (n.) returns in dreams not only through what mattered, but through pictures that never had any importance at all — and so seem alien to both the dreaming and the waking mind.
A Dream (n.) does not reproduce experience: it takes one step, then omits the next, alters it, or swaps in something entirely foreign — it yields only fragments of reproductions.
A Dream (n.) floats above the floor of our mental life like a cloud in the sky, scattered by the first breath of wind.
A Dreamer (n.) believes his dream because he has turned away from the world: lacking the only test that tells inside from outside, he trusts his own images.
An Illusion (n.) is what perception makes of an impression too weak, unclear or brief: the distant object is first a horse, then a cow lying down, then a group of people sitting on the ground.
Nonsense (n.) is hard to remember: a line of verse with its words shuffled slips away, and dreams, barren of order, fall to pieces a moment after waking.
Sleep (n.) makes the mind more aware of the body than waking ever does: it is obliged to feel stimuli from parts of the body it knows nothing of when awake.
Sleep (n.) withdraws the mind from the world, so it cannot read stimuli correctly and dresses each vague sensation in images left over from waking life.
Waking (n.) lets the day's impressions drive dreams off, the way sunlight makes the brilliance of the stars give way.