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The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where cause and effect are reversed: A bell sound entering the ear during sleep is incorporated into the dream such that we experience the cause 'first' and then the sound. This is the way primitives were in their waking state.

The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where humanity carries out the task of early humanity (i.e. Erroneous comparisons, bad conclusions).

The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the same activity we engage in when we are awake: We invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.

A Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where images, figures or appearances (apollonian forms) are constituted as symptoms of an underlying substratum (dionysian chaos).

The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the origin of all metaphysics: without it one would have had no occasion to divide the world into two.

Dream (n.) ing ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠of the long-forgotten dead (v.) signals a violent inner change: the ground has been turned over, the dead rise, and our antiquity becomes our modernity.

Dream (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠their rare best are chains of symbolic scenes paraphrasing our lives with poetic boldness — in dreaming we use up too much of our artistic capacity and have too little left by day.