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A Dream (n.) is no liar: it often only reveals what we would not admit to ourselves.
A Dream (n.) gives the sufferer what reality denies him, as delirium does: the bereaved mother rejoices in her child, the ruined man is immensely rich, the deceived girl feels tenderly loved.
Illness (n.) once recovered from often seems to the patient like a not unpleasant dream — and even during it he sometimes felt he was only caught up in a dream.
A Split personality (n.) happens nightly: in a dream the dreamer's own knowledge may be divided between two persons, and an extraneous ego corrects the real one — just as the paranoiac hears his own thoughts spoken by alien voices.
Will (n.) together with attention polices waking thought; withdrawn in sleep, it leaves dreams to melt into a mad whirl of kaleidoscopic confusion.