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As the ordinary consciousness has no remembrance, upon awaking, of that which the soul-spiritual part of man has experienced between going to sleep and waking up (with the exception of the varicolored multiplicity of dreams, which actually float away, as we know, when we sink into sleep or when we wake, and which for the ordinary consciousness do not result from deep sleep)—as, then, the ordinary consciousness has no remembrance of this condition, so for the entire earth life this same consciousness remembers only back to a certain point of time in childhood. With one person this point of time is somewhat earlier, with another later. What occurs in the earthly life prior to this is really as much concealed from the ordinary consciousness as are the events of the sleep state. Of course, it is true that the child is not actually sleeping; it lives in a sort of dreamy, indefinite inner activity; but from the point of view of the whole later life, this condition is at least not very much removed from dream-filled sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Pneumatosophy: The Riddles of the Inner Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-23","location":null,"word_count":249,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Frances E. 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Wie das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein beim Aufwachen eine Erinnerung nicht hat an das, was das menschliche Seelisch-Geistige vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen durchgemacht hat — mit Ausnahme der bunten Mannigfaltigkeit der Träume, die aber auch eigentlich, wie wir ja wissen, dahinfluten mit dem Einschlafen oder mit dem Aufwachen, die eigentlich für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein nicht herauskommen aus dem tiefen Schlafe -, wie also das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein sich an diese Zustände nicht erinnert, so hat ja dieses selbe Bewußtsein für das ganze Erdenleben nur eine Erinnerung bis zurück zu einem gewissen Zeitpunkte der Kindheit. Bei dem einen liegt er etwas früher, bei dem andern etwas später. Was davor liegt im Erdenleben, ist eigentlich für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein so verhüllt wie die Ereignisse des Schlafzustandes. 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