{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 227/1923-08-22/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Before speaking in detail—as I shall be doing—of the dream and its relation to the physical body of man and to his spiritual element, I should like to-day to describe how, through the dream world, he is found to belong to the Cosmos as a whole. We can see how in dreams the connection between single events in life is quite different from anything we experience when we are awake. We have just seen in the example given that in waking life things appear in a certain connection according to the laws holding good in the sense-world—a later event always follows an earlier one. The dream takes events that could happen in the sense-world and makes them chaotic. Everything becomes different; everything is broken up. All that is normally bound to the Earth by gravity, like man himself, is suddenly—in a dream—able to fly. A man will perform skilful flying feats without an aeroplane. And a mathematical problem, for instance, such as we may strain every nerve to solve in ordinary life, appears in a dream to be mere child’s play. The solution is probably forgotten on waking—well, that is a personal misfortune—but at any rate one gets the idea that the obstacles which hamper our thinking in daily life have disappeared. In effect, everything in daily life with definite connections loses them to a certain extent in dreams. If we want to picture what actually happens—or appears to happen—in a dream, we can imagine the following. Into a glass of water we put some kind of soluble salt in crystalline form, and watch it dissolve. We see how its clear-cut forms melt away, how they take on fantastic shapes, until all the salt is dissolved, and we are left with a glass of more or less homogenous fluid.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Ein Folgendes muß immer auf ein Früheres kommen. Der Traum zeigt dasjenige, was in der gewöhnlichen Sinneswelt geschehen kann, in vollständiger Auflösung. Es wird alles anders; es löst sich alles auf. Dasjenige, was, wie der Mensch selbst, als sinnliches Wesen an den Erdboden durch die Schwere gebunden ist, kann im Traume plötzlich fliegen. Der Mensch macht Kunstflüge ohne Flugzeug im Traume. Woran man sich sonst die Zähne ausbeißt, an einem mathematischen Problem zum Beispiel, das erlebt man im Traume so, als ob man es kinderleicht gelöst habe. Man erinnert sich dann vielleicht an die Lösung im Wachen nicht mehr — nun, das ist ja ein persönliches Unglück -, aber jedenfalls hat man die Vorstellung, daß die Hemmnisse, die Hindernisse im Vorstellen, die im Tagesleben da sind, nicht da seien. Und so wird alles, was im Tagesleben einen festen Zusammenhang hat, in einer gewissen Weise im Traume aufgelöst. Wollen wir uns ein sinnliches Bild machen von dem, was da im Traume eigentlich geschieht - für unser Vorstellen natürlich nur geschieht -, so können wir sagen: Wir stellen meinetwillen ein Glas mit einer Flüssigkeit, mit Wasser hin, geben irgendein Salz, das sich auflösen kann, in das Wasser hinein und schauen nun dem Auflösen zu. Das Salz, nehmen wir an, wäre sogar kristallisiert und hätte bestimmte Formen. Das Salz zeigt uns zunächst, wenn wir es hineinwerfen, die bestimmtesten Formen. 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