Excerpt from The Dream Problem<br><br>The liberating function Of the dream is here expressed as a hint from God in the so-called mythical phase Of realization; the cigamitself is considered by me as a 11211 Of the curatflrflqcess. You will permit me to remind you of the ke'e'fi of Hebbel on this same point. It is: This I know; such dreams One should not despise. I fancy it to be this way: when man lies asleep, relaxed, no longer held together by self-consciousness, a feeling Of the future crowds out all thoughts and pictures of the present, and those things which are to come glide like shadows through the soul, preparing, warning, comforting. This is why so seldom, or not at all, anything really surprises us, and why we have long and confidently hoped for the good, and trembled involuntarily before every evil.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.