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A Dream (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠has a purely psychical origin, on this view: the thoughts in our dreams reach us from outside.

Illness (n.) signs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the dream with its organ: the heart-sick dream of horrible death ending in terror at the moment of waking, the lung-sick of suffocation, crowding and flight.

An Nightmare (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠know before the doctor does: a woman in apparent perfect health was tormented for years by anxiety-dreams, then found to have the heart disease that killed her.