{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-03-21/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Good morning, gentlemen! Now let us try to finish, at least for the time being, what we have begun to consider. You see, an understanding of life comes only from the fact that one begins to observe the sleep of man, as I have already mentioned to you several times. When one is immersed in life from morning to evening, one usually has the opinion that sleep gives one strength, removes fatigue and so on. But sleep actually does much more. You just need to think about it. Think back to your life, the dreams you have had in your sleep, you don't always remember them. Dreams are something you soon forget, as you all know. Only at most you may remember that you had a dream here or there that you often told. Then you remember it by telling it. But the dreams that you don't tell are quickly forgotten. If you remember your life back to your childhood, you will remember some memories from your childhood up to later in life. But these memories are always interrupted. When you think back today, there is the time during which you slept. That is a break, and you do not remember it. The memory starts again only yesterday evening and goes until yesterday morning. Then there is another break. So that actually, when you remember back, you do not have your whole life, but in this remembering back, what is in the night is actually always left out. If you draw a line of retrospection, a period of time flows from evening to morning without retrospection, then again from morning to evening, then again a pause from evening to morning, and so on. We actually only remember our lives in such a way that we do not remember a whole part of our lives at all. That is quite clear. That is the time that we have slept through.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Human Existence in Sleep and Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-03-21","location":null,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-03-21/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230321p02.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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Nun wollen wir einmal versuchen, wenigstens vorläufig das zu Ende zu führen, was wir angefangen haben zu betrachten. Sehen Sie, das Verstehen des Lebens kommt nur dadurch zustande, daß man, was ich Ihnen ja schon öfter erwähnt habe, anfängt, den Schlaf des Menschen zu betrachten. Wenn man nämlich so drinnensteht im Leben vom Morgen bis zum Abend, dann hat man ja gewöhnlich die Meinung, der Schlaf, der gibt einem wiederum Kraft, der bringt die Ermüdung fort und so weiter. Aber der Schlaf tut nämlich viel mehr. Sie brauchen sich das nur einmal zu überlegen. Denken Sie einmal daran, wenn Sie sich an Ihr Leben erinnern, die Träume, die Sie im Schlaf gehabt haben, die fallen Ihnen ja nicht immer ein. Träume sind etwas, was man bald vergißt, wie Sie alle wissen. Nur höchstens, daß man da oder dort einmal einen Traum gehabt hat, den man oft erzählt hat. Dann merkt man ihn sich durch das Erzählen. Aber die Träume, die man nicht erzählt, die schwinden sehr schnell dahin. Wenn Sie sich zurückerinnern an Ihr Leben bis in die Bubenzeit, so werden Ihnen aus der Bubenzeit manche Erinnerungen einfallen bis zum späteren Leben. Aber diese Erinnerung, die hat ja immer eine Unterbrechnung. Wenn Sie heute zurückdenken, so ist da die Zeit, während der Sie geschlafen haben. Das ist eine Pause, an die Sie sich nicht zurückerinnern. Die Erinnerung fängt erst gestern abend wiederum an und geht bis gestern früh. Dann ist wiederum eine Pause. So daß man eigentlich, wenn man sich zurückerinnert, nicht sein ganzes Leben hat, sondern bei diesem Zurückerinnern fällt ja eigentlich immer dasjenige, was in der Nacht ist, aus. Wenn man eine Linie der Rückerinnerung zieht, so verfließt eine Zeit vom Abend bis zum Morgen ohne Rückerinnerung, dann wiederum Erinnerung vom Morgen bis zum Abend, wiederum Pause vom Abend bis zum Morgen und so fort. An unser Leben erinnern wir uns eigentlich nur so, daß wir einen ganzen Teil unseres Lebens gar nicht zurückerinnern. Das ist ganz klar. 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