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This supposition is strengthened by the fact, that the habit of recalling ami relating dreams is said to confirm the tendency to them and to deepen their impressions. It is not probable that one dreams more as the result of reciting dreams, but rather that the deepened attention strengthens the memory of dreams.

The nature also of dreams is a proof of their continuous presence. There is shown in them a certain freedom, yet also a certain weakness, of the mind not found in the waking moments. The intellectual powers are plainly divorced from the usual restraint and guidance of the senses and the voluntary activities. Nothing seems monstrous, that is unnatural. The most incongruous events are accepted with perfect composure. The laws of nature are largely set aside, and the mind binds together, with its own fanciful connections in its own fanciful creations, the events that arise before it. The inner wheels are ungeared from the outer world, and revolve in their own rapid and irregular way. This fact goes to show that the senses are in full repose, while the mind retains this wild, free, sportive, untiring activity.

In dreams, also, the will, through the repose of its physical instruments, seems utterly powerless. Flight, however urgent the apparent necessity, is impossible. No personal exigency is met with physical prowess and strength. This seems to arise from the fact that the will finds itself thwarted by the inert, sleeping body, and not inducing its wonted effects in this torpid mass, throws back on the mind fear, faintness, and a sense of hopeless failure. Sometimes, indeed, the effort it puts forth is so great as to run, like an electric shock, through the muscles, and the awakened body is landed at a leap, startled and astonished, on the floor of the chamber. These facts all indicate that physical response is accompanied with mental activity, and