126. When are Dreams Remembered?

Only when they intervene in the organization, which also affects ordinary remembering - when they have the strength of sensory impressions - within the area adjacent to the sensory sphere - thus on the inward boundary.

The dream is experienced in the etheric body - movement only occurs when the astral body clings to the etheric body.

When the connection between the ego and the astral body becomes conscious, then one experiences in the will - a feeling of emptiness; when the connection between the physical body and the etheric body becomes conscious, then one experiences in the imagination - a feeling of density; the inner being is filled - as if spinning dreams formed this inner being. The imagination, becoming more and more ethereal, forms a picture, either within the senses (in waking consciousness) or behind them (in dreams or imagination).

In dreams, the temporal perspective that is experienced in waking life comes to our perception.

In imagination, the spatial perspective is removed – the images inwardly carry the movement.

The figures of the dream are alienated from the I; the imaginations are assimilated by the I.

The mystic withdraws from the world; the naturalist goes out into the world. The spiritual researcher enters with the world into his inner being and with his inner being into the world.

In breathing, the contact with the outer world is experienced dreamily in the rhythmic system.

In the inspiration that consciousness pours out through the imagination, this interaction is experienced with full awareness throughout the entire body.

But it is not air; it is ether - and with it its content - the soul-spiritual (astral). - Thus the world before and after earthly life is opened. - But with that, the ethical world has also merged with the physical world.

One converses with a dream figure as with a living person, without knowing that he has recently died - (Hartmann). One never does that in the imagination - because in it one lives only in the sphere of reality - one does not take into account in imagining anything that has not been experienced - one learns to live in images. -

One imagines that one has written a book and searches for the manuscript (Hartmann, Psych. p. 88). One does not do this in the imagination because one views the inner process that is present quite differently; not as a wish but as a task that arises. One finds in it the forces of survival. Not the desires are inwardly stimulated – but one remains fixed on the image = the image is not filled by the outer world, but by the activity emanating from within = Ordinary Consciousness: Wish-Image-Reality.