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When dreams occur in normal life, these dreams are not the actual activity during sleep, but are actually a visualization of the activity through the memories of ordinary life. The images of dream life arise because life spreads its tapestry over the actual inner activity; and in this way many things are perceived in 'dream life'. There the I and the astral body are in a living activity; when this touches the etheric body and the human being touches the etheric body, the dream arises. But the dream uses the physical life memories from the etheric body to make visible the invisible activity of the ego and the astral body. Therefore, one can only understand the dream if one takes these images in terms of their character sequence, that is, if one learns to understand these images. “Dreams must first be read in the right way, the right art of interpretation must first be added. Then, however, they point to this most significant reality, which is carried out by the ego and the astral body during sleep. This activity, then, which the human being carries out, is revealed to serious and dignified spiritual research.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p029","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p029"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":193,"en_words":205,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It consists of reliving the experiences of the day in a much more intense way, so that one becomes, as it were, one's own judge of the day's experiences. It is a trite expression, but deeply true: during the day, one lives into the normal consciousness, letting the events that take place around one wash over one. But at night, in the astral body, one takes the events of the day much more seriously, much more meaningfully, both intellectually and emotionally. One weighs them, examines them in terms of their cosmic value. One concerns oneself with what they mean in the context of the whole world. An immense inner thoroughness in the contemplation of life is poured out upon the activity from falling asleep to waking up; only in normal life it remains unconscious. All this, what man goes through every night like a reliving of the day's life, has a great significance as preparation for life after passing through the gate of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p030","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p030"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":163,"en_words":182,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Of course, one only says that one remembers back to a certain point in time in this life. In truth, one does not remember the whole life back, but one remembers in the evening what goes on until the morning. Then the memory breaks off. Then comes the previous 'day', and then the night, which one does not remember. So one remembers back, but it is, as it were, chain link on chain link, a white and a black link. One does not remember the night in the life between birth and death. The strange thing is that in this time when you are in the realm of the soul, you remember the way you relived your daytime experiences night after night during the nights. Here in physical life you remember your days; in the realm of the soul you remember the same, but you remember how you worked through and lived through the days in the nights. You retrace your nights. In this way you can see the whole nature of the experiences in the soul realm.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p031","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-11-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":196,"en_words":194,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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You relive it not only with him during the day, but also at night, and in the following nights; then it is a kind of reminiscence. You experience it inwardly in the ego and astral body. Everything you have experienced here in your waking consciousness, you experience again in your night consciousness. And the way you have experienced it in your night consciousness gives you the handle for how you need it in the soul world. You relive your nights. This is a very significant truth of spiritual research, and one can always remember through such a thing the fact that spiritual research is not as many believe. Many believe that once one has entered the spiritual world, then the spiritual researcher suddenly knows the whole spiritual world and is informed about everything. This belief is just as naive as it is naive to believe that someone who has walked across one part of the earth knows the whole earth. He knows parts of the earth quite well, but he knows nothing about other parts of the earth. Equally, someone who knows the spiritual world at some point does not need to know everything about the spiritual world. That is the subject of a slow research. That is why it is so difficult to talk about spiritual science, because you keep running into this prejudice. When lectures on spiritual science are given, people demand in the question and answer session that information be given about all things. 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Das Schlafesleben bleibt zunächst, wenn es nicht auf eine gewisse Art vom Traumesleben durchsetzt ist, unbewußt, doch bedeutet dies nicht Untätigkeit. Im Gegenteil, dieses Schlafesleben ist ein innerlich viel tätigeres Seelenleben wenn es auch zunächst während des normalen Erdenlebens unbewußt bleibt — als das wache Seelenleben. Das wache Seelenleben ist nur deshalb so intensiv, weil die Tätigkeit des Ich und des Astralleibes an dem Atherleibe und physischen Leibe einen Widerstand erfährt, und in diesem gegenseitigen Sich-Stoßen von Ich und Astralleib einerseits und physischem und Ätherleib andererseits etwas entwickelt wird wie fortwährende Stöße und Gegenstöße. Dieses ist es, was uns als waches Tagesleben erscheint, während wir im normalen Erdenleben noch nicht in der Lage sind, die fortwährende, aber intensive Tätigkeit des Nachtlebens zum Bewußtsein zu bringen. Dieses stößt nicht an den physischen und Ätherleib, daher wird es nicht bewußt. Aber an sich ist das Tagesleben schwächer; es wird nur bewußt dadurch, daß es fortwährend antrommelt an Ätherleib und physischen Leib. Dieses Antrommeln nimmt man wahr, während die intensivere Tätigkeit des Schlafeslebens ins Unbestimmte hinausgeht, nicht antrommeln kann an irgend etwas und dadurch unbewußt bleibt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p028"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Aber womit beschäftigt sich der Mensch während dieses Schlafeslebens? Wenn Träume auftreten im normalen Leben, so sind diese Träume ja nicht die wirkliche Tätigkeit während des Schlafeslebens, sondern sie sind eigentlich eine Verbildlichung der Tätigkeit durch die Erinnerungen des gewöhnlichen Lebens. Die Bilder des Traumlebens entstehen dadurch, daß das Leben seinen Teppich breitet über die eigentliche innere Tätigkeit; und dadurch wird mancherlei wahrgenommen im 'Traumesleben. Da sind das Ich und der Astralleib in einer lebendigen Tätigkeit; wenn sich das berührt mit dem Ätherleibe und der Mensch anstößt an den Ätherleib, dann entsteht der Traum. Aber der Traum benützt aus dem Atherleib heraus die physischen Lebenserinnerungen, um die unsichtbar bleibende Tätigkeit des Ich und des Astralleibes sichtbar zu machen. Hinter den Traum kommt man daher nur, wenn man diese Bilder in bezug auf ihren Charakterablauf nimmt, wenn man also diese Bilder verstehen lernt. \"Träume müssen erst in der richtigen Weise gelesen werden, es muß erst die richtige Auslegekunst dazukommen. Dann weisen sie allerdings in diese bedeutungsvollste Wirklichkeit hinein, die vom Ich und vom Astralleib im Schlafe ausgeführt wird. Diese Tätigkeit also, die da der Mensch ausführt, enthüllt sich dann der ernsten und würdigen Geistesforschung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p029"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Worin besteht nun diese Tätigkeit vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen? Sie besteht darin, daß man in viel intensiverer Weise innerlich die Tageserlebnisse noch einmal durchlebt, daß man gewissermaßen zum Selbstbeurteiler wird der Tageserlebnisse. Es ist trivial ausgedrückt, aber tief innerlich wahr: man lebt in dem normalen Bewußtsein in den Tag hinein, man läßt die Ereignisse, die um einen sich abspielen, abfluten. In der Nacht aber nimmt man ichlich und in dem Astralleib - ichlich und seelisch — die Tagesereignisse viel ernster, viel bedeutungsvoller. Man wägt sie, prüft sie in bezug auf ihren Weltenwert. Man beschäftigt sich damit, was sie für eine Bedeutung haben im ganzen Weltenzusammenhang. Eine ungeheure innerliche Gründlichkeit in der Lebensbetrachtung ist ausgegossen über die Tätigkeit vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen; nur bleibt sie eben im normalen Leben unbewußt. Alles dies, was da der Mensch wie ein nochmaliges Durchleben des Tageslebens jede Nacht durchmacht, das hat eine große Bedeutung als Vorbereitung für das Leben nach dem Durchschreiten der Pforte des Todes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p030"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Betrachten Sie doch einmal mit den Mitteln der gewöhnlichen physischen Betrachtung dieses fortlaufende Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod. Man sagt natürlich nur, man erinnere sich bis zu einem gewissen Zeitpunkt zurück in diesem Leben. In Wahrheit erinnert man sich nicht an das ganze Leben zurück, sondern man erinnert sich am Abend an das, was bis zum Morgen geht. Dann reißt die Erinnerung ab. Dann kommt erst wiederum der vorhergehende 'Tag, dann wieder die Nacht, an die man sich nicht erinnert. So erinnert man sich zurück, aber es ist gleichsam Kettenglied an Kettenglied, ein weißes und ein schwarzes Glied. An die Nacht erinnert man sich nicht in dem Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod. Das Eigentümliche ist nun, daß man sich gerade erinnert in dieser Zeit, in der man im Seelenlande lebt, an die Art, wie man nun in den Nächten, Nacht für Nacht zurückgehend, die Tageserlebnisse durchlebt hat. Hier im physischen Leben erinnert man sich an seine Tage; im Seelenland erinnert man sich an dasselbe, aber man erinnert sich, wie man die Tage durchwirkt und durchlebt hat in den Nächten. Man schreitet seine Nächte zurück. Dadurch blicken Sie hinein in die ganze Art des Erlebens im Seelenlande.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p031"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1915-11-23/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Wenn Sie sich das im einzelnen klarmachen, ist es so: Sie haben einen Menschen getroffen an einem bestimmten Tage des Lebens, Sie haben mit ihm dieses oder jenes erlebt. Sie erleben es nicht nur mit ihm am Tage, sondern auch in der Nacht noch einmal, auch in den folgenden Nächten; dann ist es eine Art von Reminiszenz. Sie erleben es da innerlich im Ich und Astralleib. Alles, was Sie hier erlebt haben im Tagesbewußtsein, erleben Sie wiederum im Nachtbewußtsein. Und so wie Sie es im Nachtbewußtsein erlebt haben, so gibt es Ihnen die Handhabe für das, wie Sie es in der Seelenwelt brauchen. Sie erleben Ihre Nächte zurück. Das ist eine sehr bedeutungsvolle Wahrheit der Geistesforschung, und man kann durch eine solche Sache immer wiederum der Tatsache gedenken, daß das Forschen im Geistigen nicht so ist, wie viele glauben. Viele glauben, daß wenn man einmal die geistige Welt betreten hat, dann kenne der Geistesforscher auf einmal die ganze geistige Welt und wisse über alles Bescheid. Dieser Glaube ist ebenso naiv, wie es naiv ist zu glauben, daß einer, der über einen Teil der Erde gegangen ist, die ganze Erde kennt. Stücke der Erde kennt er ganz gut, aber von anderen Stücken der Erde weiß er nichts. Ebensowenig braucht einer, der die geistige Welt an irgendeinem Punkte kennt, alles von der geistigen Welt zu wissen. Das ist Gegenstand einer langsamen Forschung. Daher ist es so schwierig, über die Geisteswissenschaft zu sprechen, weil man immer wieder diesem Vorurteil begegnet. Wenn geisteswissenschaftliche Vorträge gehalten werden, dann verlangen die Leute in der Fragenbeantwortung, daß über alle Dinge Auskunft gegeben werde. Solche Fragen sind ebenso zu beurteilen, wie wenn irgend jemand zum Beispiel eine bestimmte Anzahl von Mineralien, von Pflanzen kennengelernt hätte, und man würde ihn dann über die Geheimnisse der Tierwelt fragen und sagen: Er kennt das eine, da muß er auch das andere kennen!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1915-11-23/p032"}],"beads":[{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30],"to":[30],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}