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Even a very ordinary self-recollection teaches us (clairvoyant endowment is in no way necessary for this) that when usual human consciousness is fully awake it cannot embrace more than the sphere of the life of ideas and the sphere of sense perceptions. However, we experience in our soul also the world of our feelings and the world of our will. But we have said that we live through this world of our feelings only as we live through a dream; the *life of dream* enters the ordinary waking consciousness and, inasmuch as we are feeling human beings, we are, in reality, mere *dreamers* of life. Things occur in the depths of our feeling life, of which our waking consciousness, contained in our ideas and sense perceptions, knows nothing at all. The waking consciousness knows less still concerning the real processes of the life of our will. Man dreams away his feeling life in his usual consciousness, and he sleeps away the life of his will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. Our Life with the Dead","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-12-10","location":null,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/179/1917-12-10/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171210p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Und zwar so, daß wir im gewöhnlichen Wachbewußtsein, mit dem der Mensch ausgerüstet ist zwischen der Geburt und dem Tode, eigentlich nur in bezug auf die sinnlichen Wahrnehmungen völlig wachen, in bezug also auf die Wahrnehmung alles desjenigen, was durch unsere Sinne an uns herankommt, ferner in bezug auf alles das, was wir an Vorstellungen entwickeln, seien es Vorstellungen, die wir uns machen über das sinnlich Wahrgenommeng, seien es Vorstellungen, die aus unserem Innern auftauchen zum Begreifen, zum Beleben der Welt. Schon eine ganz gewöhnliche Selbstbesinnung lehrt uns — keineswegs ist dazu hellseherische Begabung notwendig -, daß das gewöhnliche Menschheitsbewußtsein völlig wachend nicht mehr umfassen kann als das Gebiet des Vorstellungslebens und das Gebiet der Sinneswahrnehmungen. In unserer Seele selbst erleben wir außerdem unsere Gefühlswelt und unsere Willenswelt. Aber wir haben gesagt, daß wir unsere Gefühlswelt nur so durchleben, wie wir etwa einen Traum durchleben, daß das Traumleben sich in das gewöhnliche Wachbewußtsein herein erstreckt, und wir eigentlich, indem wir fühlende Menschen sind, Träumer des Lebens sind. Denn auf dem Grunde des Gefühlslebens gehen Dinge vor, von denen das Wachbewußtsein im Vorstellen und im Sinneswahrnehmen nichts weiß. Noch weniger weiß das wache Bewußtsein etwas von den wirklichen Vorgängen des Willenslebens. Das Gefühlsleben verträumt der Mensch im gewöhnlichen Wachbewußtsein, das Willensleben verschläft er. So daß also unter unserem Vorstellungsleben ein Reich lebt, in das wir selber eingebettet sind, und das uns nur zum Teil bekannt ist, uns nur bekannt ist durch die Wogen, die heraufschlagen über seine Oberfläche.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/179/1917-12-10/p003"}],"english":["GA 179/1917-12-10/p003","GA 179/1917-12-10/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":295,"en_words":340,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5369,"original_word_count":5397,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171210p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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