6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

We dream in our feelings, in our emotions, in our passions. And anyone who is able to truly follow the life of the soul knows that the same degree of intensity and the same quality of soul life that expresses itself in dreams, albeit in an abnormal way, also expresses itself during waking life in everything else that lives in human feelings. Spiritual research shows, precisely because it truly observes the soul with its methods, that human beings only have their full waking life for external sensory observation and for the life of imagination. We are truly awake only in relation to sensory perceptions and the life of imagination, while dreams draw into our waking daily life. They draw into our waking daily life so that what we experience emotionally, what is in us in terms of emotional impulses, is dreamed. While waking life proceeds in sensory perceptions and imaginations, the undercurrent of subconscious life, which can be brought into consciousness through spiritual science, continues as a stream of subconscious life in feeling, in the life of passion; we continue to dream while we are awake. And above all: we continue to sleep while we are awake. We not only dream, we continue to sleep while we are awake.