Emotion and Imagination--How Stimuli are transformed into Emotion--Somnambulism--The Failure of Movement in Dreams--Nightmare--Influence of the approach of Awakening on imagined Dream movements--The Magnification of Imagery--Peripheral and Cerebral Conditions combine to produce this Imaginative Heightening--Emotion in Sleep also Heightened--Dreams formed to explain Heightened Emotions of unknown origin--The fundamental Place of Emotion in Dreams--Visceral and especially Gastric disturbance as a source of Emotion--Symbolism in Dreams--The Dreamer's Moral Attitude--Why Murder so often takes place in Dreams--Moral Feeling not Abolished in Dreams though sometimes Impaired, 94 CHAPTER VI AVIATION IN DREAMS Dreams of Flying and Falling--Their Peculiar Vividness--Dreams of Flying an Alleged Survival of Primeval Experiences--Best explained as based on Respiratory Sensations combined with Cutaneous Anaesthesia--The Explanation of Dreams of Falling--The Sensation of Levitation sometimes experienced by Ecstatic Saints--Also experienced at the Moment of Death, 129 CHAPTER VII SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS The Dramatisation of Subjective Feelings Based on Dissociation--Analogies in Waking Life--The Synaesthesias and Number-forms--Symbolism in Language--In Music--The Organic Basis of Dream Symbolism--The Omnipotence of Symbolism--Oneiromancy--The Scientific Interpretation of Dreams--Why Symbolism prevails in Dreaming--Freud's Theory of Dreaming--Dreams as Fulfilled Wishes--Why this Theory cannot be applied to all Dreaming--The Complete Form of Symbolism in Dreams--Splitting up of Personality--Self-objectivation in Imaginary Personalities--The Dramatic Element in Dreams--Hallucinations--Multiple Personality--Insanity--Self-objectivation a Primitive Tendency--Its Survival in Civilisation, 148 CHAPTER VIII DREAMS OF THE DEAD Mental Dissociation during sleep--Illustrated by the Dream of Returning to School Life--The Typical Dream of a Dead Friend--Examples--Early Records of this Type of Dream--Analysis of such Dreams--Atypical Forms--The Consolation sometimes afforded by Dreams of the Dead--Ancient Legends of this Dream Type--The Influence of Dreams on the Belief of Primitive Man in the Survival of the Dead, 194 CHAPTER IX MEMORY IN DREAMS