CHAPTER V. Emotion in Dreams

EMOTION IN DREAMS

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