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IN discussing the differences between dreams and real life, Schopenhauer expresses the opinion that the distinction between these two activities of our representative power consists merely in the possibility of the representations of real life being connected in an uninterrupted successive series, while dreams resemble the separate pages, of a book torn asunder, and put together again in complete confusion. Some personal observations of my own do not quite agree with this view. I have watched my dreams for some years, and have remarked that many of them are connected with one another in separate series. It happens to me very often that my dreams consist of a series of representations logically developed (although sometimes the logic is absurd) from other series of representations dreamed long before. It would be interesting to know if anyone else has observed anything of this kind.
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BIALOVESKI, A. Dreams. Nature 38, 56 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038056b0
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