CHAPTER IX. Memory in Dreams

MEMORY IN DREAMS

The Apparent Rapidity of Thought in Dreams--This Phenomenon largely due to the Dream being a Description of a Picture--The Experience of Drowning Persons--The Sense of Time in Dreams--The Crumpling of Consciousness in Dreams--The Recovery of Lost Memories through the Relaxation of Attention--The Emergence in Dreams of Memories not known to Waking Life--The Recollection of Forgotten Languages in Sleep--The Perversions of Memory in Dreams--Paramnesic False Recollections--Hypnagogic Paramnesia--Dreams mistaken for Actual Events--The Phenomenon of Pseudo-Reminiscence--Its Relationship to Epilepsy--Its Prevalence especially among Imaginative and Nervously Exhausted Persons--The Theories put forward to Explain it--A Fatigue Product--Conditioned by Defective Attention and Apperception--Pseudo-Reminiscence a reversed Hallucination, 212