# 53. Dream, Hallucination, Somnambulism, and Seeing Consciousness II

In dreams, anesthesia of the higher senses and of touch. —

In the dream, self-observation is practiced. The thinking activity, which otherwise disturbs self-observation, stands still; so does the sensory activity.

Imagination and inspiration are present.

The will rests on intuition; the presentation on sensory activity; both are absent.

The dream takes place outside the senses and outside the metabolism.

It takes place in the rhythm of breathing and blood circulation.

Memory weak because sensory activity is absent. False memory – hyperesthesia.

The dream proceeds like a mental disorder, but is quite unlike it, because it takes place in the soul. In a mental disorder, the physical intrudes into the soul without justification; in a dream, the spirit intrudes into the soul without understanding.

In a dream, a person is neither moral nor logical.

Dreaming continues in waking life.

Hallucination: the unwarranted conscious perception of a part of the body instead of the whole body. The dream image: one knows only through a part of the soul instead of through the whole soul.

Imagination must not become hallucination; inspiration must not become autosuggestion.

It depends on the drama of the dream. He clothes his tensions, solutions, his rhythms in the images of personal experience.

The somnambulist is in relationship with the outside world; but not through his normal physical body, but through that part of his being that is associated with the imaginative and inspired world. In dream consciousness, it is the soul that is active; in somnambulism, it is the body. A person is somnambulant if, instead of extinguishing prenatal experiences in the body (and merely seeing them in the spiritual) and instead imprinting them in the body (which enables the person to perceive in the sensory world). —

In post-hypnosis, the organ remains imprinted until the command is carried out. Instead of being a soul-spiritual being that reveals itself through the body, the person has become a physical-soul automaton that apes the true human being.

The human being carries his childhood within him; but in the normal state he does not relate it to the outside world, to which he relates only his present human being. In the morbid state, however, he relates his childhood to the outside world. This is when a lack of direction in life occurs. It is easy for a person in a civilized society to get into this situation if they cannot keep up with life and are therefore unable to place their present human being in a fulfilled relationship with the outside world. Hypersthesia: aping artistic activity.

Hyperesthesia: aping of artistic activity.

If sensory activity is heightened and combines with healthy mental life, then artistry arises. But if the activity of perception, which lies behind the senses, is heightened, then it fabricates unauthorized sensory activity and apes artistry.

Diagnosis for increased sensitivity. -!?

Healing instincts.