Kitto[20] quotes a letter from a musician who lost his sight when eighteen years old, but who retains a very strong visualizing power both in waking lifeand in dreams.
Its one point of attachment to the experience of waking life lies in its symbolic function; for the common form which this supernatural view assumes is that the dream is a dim prevision of coming events.
Dreams are clearly illusory, and, unlike the illusions of waking life, are complete and persistent.
But what is illusory is only the inferences to which they give rise; in themselves, they are every bit as real as the objects of waking life.
And yet, when we are awake, we do not believe that the phantasm was, like the appearances of people in waking life, representative of a private world to which we have no direct access.
The analogy in waking life is only to be preferred to that in dreams on the ground of its greater extent and consistency.
The above dreams, except two, cannot be explained by telepathy, because the mental picture cast on the dream mind had not in either instance taken place in waking life.
Closely following, in waking life, she is astonished to receive a letter in about the same manner of her dream, but the muddy water and the arid landscape are missing.
In our dreams we are closer to our real self than in waking life.
Condorcet thought and wrote with greater fluency in his dreams than in waking life.
Only the dream usually passes rapidly with the re-establishment of the psychic revival of waking life, and the ground won by the unconscious is again vacated.
Perhaps we can start from the residue which the dream leaves in Hanold's waking life.
This admonishes us not to fall into the error of deriving the fear that is felt in a dream from the content of a dream, not to use the dream-content like the content of ideas of waking life.
In the same way that the physical body is embedded in the physical world to which it belongs, so does the astral body form a part of its own world, only it is torn out of it in waking life.
Occult science helps in forming a conception of this further principle of human nature by pointing out the existence of an essential difference between the kinds of experience in waking life.
Nothing is added in waking life; on the contrary, waking life is obtained by the limitation, concentration, and tension of that diffuse psychological life which is the life of dreaming.
The dream life contains so much more beauty, so much fuller emotion, and such wider reaches than the waking life, that one is tempted to regard it as the real life, to which the waking life is somehow a necessary preliminary.
This is most apt to occur in young women even in waking life.
Dreams might conceivably belong to this class, if they were jointed sufficiently neatly into waking life; but the chief instances are recurrent sensory hallucinations of the kind that lead to insanity.
Eeden, record that they can at longer or shorter intervals control their actions in their dreams, though usually to a less extent than their imagined actions in waking life.
In waking life we distinguish ideas or mental images from real objects by the fact that we are able under normal circumstances to dismiss the former at will.
With regard to memory, as with regard to sensation, we seem in waking life to be dealing with a selection made for purposes of earthly use.
Waking life implies a fixation of attention on one thread of thought running through a tangled skein.
We must defer that attempt until we have collected something more than the ordinary evidence as to what occurs or does not occur during the abeyance of waking life.
Conversely, dreams forgotten in waking life may be remembered in the hypnotic trance.
The sweat glands of the skin secrete more actively in sleep than in waking life, which is also a vagotonic symptom and is also due to the fact that the sweat centre is easily affected by carbonic acid.
This process is the one through which, in waking life, we reach generalizations.
The activity of the sexual organs is as great in sleep as in waking life; in certain cases, it is even greater.
The profound emotions of waking life, the questions and problems on which we spread our chief voluntary mental energy, are not those which usually present themselves at once to dream consciousness.
That our reasoning is bad, even preposterous, that it constantly ignores the most elementary facts of waking life, scarcely affects the question.
They were observed just as many of us would observe the occupants of a street car in waking life; we could possibly not describe, even partly, any one of the occupants of the car which we used on our way to the office or home.
I distinctly remember that in the dream this was a hardship to me, as it would have been in waking life, for I am not a good hand with horses, and do not like to work with them.
Even in waking life we rarely think in these terms.
But now here is a great difference, and the only difference--in a dream this assumption is wrong; in waking life it is right.
Now, if a dream is sufficiently vivid and coherent, all physical inferences are just as valid in it as they are in waking life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waking life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
