{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 227/1923-08-22/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So between falling asleep and waking we have our whole human life. We have to bring to bear on it all that as earthly beings we can conceive and think, and by this means try to unravel the strange forms taken by dreams. The great difficulty is to distinguish the immediate content of the dream, which may be sheer illusion, from the reality which lies behind it, for the reality may be something quite different. But anyone who gradually gets accustomed to finding his way among all the intricacies of dream life will finally see that we need not pay much attention to the pictures conjured up before the soul, for these pictures are shaped by the etheric body left behind in bed. This etheric body is the bearer of our thoughts and conceptions and these are absent from our real being during sleep. We have to separate the content of these conceptions from what I would call the dramatic course of the dream, and learn so to fix our attention on the dramatic element that it prompts questions such as: If I had this experience in waking life, would it give me immense pleasure? And, if I felt pleasure and had a sense of relief in this dream, was I heading in the dream for a catastrophe? Was I leaving some kind of exhibition and suddenly everything got into confusion—there was a crash and a disaster? Such questions must be given first place in the study of dreams—not the thought-content but the dramatic incidents.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. Dream Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-08-22","location":null,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/227/1923-08-22/p009","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Violet E. Watkin and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"The Evolution of Consciousness","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA227/English/RSP1966/19230822p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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In unserem Innern müssen wir uns mit unserem gesamtmenschlichen Leben entgegenstellen demjenigen, was wir in diesem Erdenleben vorstellen, denken können nach unseren Erfahrungen, und bekommen dadurch die sonderbaren Gestaltungen des Traumes heraus. Daher ist es gerade beim Traum so schwierig, seinen Inhalt, den er zunächst darbietet, und der ein vollständiges Gaukelbild sein kann, zu unterscheiden von der wahren Wirklichkeit, die eigentlich immer dahintersteckt. Diese wahre Wirklichkeit kann etwas ganz anderes sein. Aber derjenige gewöhnt sich nach und nach, in das ganze verwickelte Geschehen des Traumlebens sich hineinzufinden, der eben darauf aufmerksam wird, daß man beim Traume weniger dasjenige zu beachten hat, was einem in Bildern vor die Seele gezaubert wird, denn diese Bilder werden geformt von dem ja eigentlich im Bette zurückgelassenen ätherischen Leib, der die Gedanken, die Vorstellungen eben in sich trägt. Diese Vorstellungen hat man ja nicht in seinem eigentlichen inneren Wesen während des Schlafes. Man muß diesen Inhalt der Vorstellungen unterscheiden von etwas anderem, und dieses andere möchte ich nennen den dramatischen Verlauf des Traumes. Man muß sich allmählich gewöhnen, an den dramatischen Verlauf des Traumes so seine Aufmerksamkeit zu wenden, daß man sich frägt: Verläuft dieser Traum so, daß er, wenn die betreffenden Tatsachen im Tagesleben erfahren würden, ungeheure Freude machen würde? Hat man auch im Traume diese Freude, diese Befreiung erlebt, oder segelt man hinein im Traume in eine Katastrophe? Geht man von einer gewissen Exposition, wo sich Dinge zeigen können, dann verwickeln und dann ein Absturz kommt, über zu irgendeiner Katastrophe? 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