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80b. The Inner Nature and the Essence of the Human Soul: Anthroposophy as a Way of Life 09 Mar 1922, Berlin

Just as our dreams reveal in the most diverse ways what we might not even consider during the day, to which we are not attached with intense feeling, as it appears in the image, so the circumstances in which we find ourselves in our social interactions with people penetrate much deeper into our mental life than the things of which we are aware in our daily lives.
(Even for those who are not spiritual researchers, the dream life reveals many things. Everything we experience [from person to person] forms the basis of our emotional life, our entire system of feelings.
When we are awake, we are really only fully awake in our mental life; our feelings are in a state towards our ordinary consciousness that is otherwise like dreams, except that they occur in our soul life differently than dreams; but what will is, has sunk so deeply into the subconscious that it is experienced like the states from falling asleep to waking up.
184. Three Streams in Human Evolution: Lecture I 04 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by Charles Davy

In the sleeping state it is represented only by chaotic dreams. In the waking state, not content with perceptions only, it has recourse to abstract judgments and concepts.
Where historical life is concerned it is always Luciferic forces that lead us to hatch out far-reaching world-dreams which fail to reckon with the nature of man. In the course of human thought what a vast number of ideas have been devised for making the world happy!
Such ideas of how to make the world happy, resting always upon a defective knowledge of man, are of a Luciferic nature; dreams of world power derived from particular realms of human activity are of an Ahrimanic kind. For these dreams are developed out of the subconscious.
177. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: Working from Spiritual Reality 12 Oct 1917, Dornach
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

Then a strange thing will happen, peculiar as it may sound today. The teachers of the future will dream a great deal of their pupils, for the prophecies will be wearing the garment of dreams. The pictures we see in our dreams arise only because we are not used to connecting our dreams with the future; we dress them in elements remembered from the past, as in a garment. In reality dreams always point to the future. Yes, it is indeed true that the inner life will have to be changed, especially in those who educate the young.
174a. Central Europe Between East and West: Seventh Lecture 19 May 1917, Munich

If we go back to Atlantean times, we do not find the animalistic humanity that materialistic Darwinism so readily speaks of; we find a humanity that certainly had a life that was much duller than that of the post-Atlantean humanity , and when one speaks of the dullness of the soul life, one would indeed like to say — but the comparison remains a very external one — that this duller dream-like soul life of the Atlantean period resembles the dream-like soul life of the present higher animals. But this comparison, if made, would be a very inadequate one, because the present-day animals, in their dull, dream-like consciousness, do not experience what the Atlanteans experienced in their dream-like, dull consciousness almost up to the end of the fifth period. What then is the most essential characteristic of this dream-like consciousness of the ancient Atlanteans? The most essential characteristic is that the people who lived at that time — forgive me if what I say seems materialistic; but you can only recognize the materialistic if you have mastered it, if you know about the impulses of the spiritual — lived in such a way that their nutritional and eating lives were very closely related to their spiritual lives.
325. Natural Science and the Historical Development of Humanity: Lecture II 22 May 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

The sick were brought to the Temple and put into a kind of sleep during which they entered a sort of dream condition. What they then remembered was studied in its pictorial characteristics by priests who were versed in such things. These priests found out what taught them pathology through the inner dramatic course of the dreams, through the character of the pictures, whether they were dark on light or dark following light and so on. From another side they discovered indications for remedies in the particular configuration of the dreams. Through observation of what men experienced inwardly and what in dream pictures presented itself to the inner sight, the inward bodily condition of human beings was studied in Egypt.
263. Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924: Letter from Edith Maryon 29 Aug 1923,

The mountain walkers are returning, Steffen is passing by, lost in a poetic dream. I really liked the little sketch of the view from your window, but I wonder why you don't have a sea view?
145. The Beginning of Spring, Easter Monday and Sunday 23 Mar 1913, The Hague

What does the moonlight tell us, which is there in the darkness of the night like the dream in the sleep of man? The occultist learns that of the forces of the active sun, of the forces of the sun that renew the evolution of the earth again and again, as much is taken away as light from the sun is reflected back from the full moon. The human soul may dream itself into the moonlit magic nights, the occultist knows that as much of the power of sunlight and solar heat is taken as the full moon reflects back to Earth from that sunlight.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: The Beginning of Spring, Easter Moon And Easter Sunday 23 Mar 1913, The Hague

What does the moonlight tell us, which is there in the darkness of the night like a dream in a person's sleep? — The occultist learns that of the forces of the active sun, of the sun's forces that repeatedly and repeatedly renew the evolution of the earth, as much is taken away as the light of the sun is reflected by the full moon. The human soul may dream itself into the moonlit magic nights, the occultist knows that as much of the power of sunlight and solar heat is taken as the full moon reflects back to Earth from that sunlight.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 13
Translated by Harry Collison

I seized th' auspicious hour in which to cast A glamour o'er its vision of the light To which in dreams alone it had bowed down. Yet all my hopes must forthwith disappear That victory is ours in spirit-realms, Since thou art worsted, comrade of my fight.
Ye know the nature of the sun of soul Oft doth it shine with fullest noontide glare, And then again like feeble twilight steal Powerless through mists of visionary dream. And often doth the darkness drive it out. The temple-servants' spirit-gaze must pierce To soul depths where there shines with powerful ray, The spirit-light that comes from cosmic heights.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: The Deification of Man – The Task of the Arts 15 Jan 1905, Berlin

We have spoken of a special training of the dream-filled sleep consciousness, which leads to the knowledge of the three elemental realms, to the world of floating images, the formations of formless forces, and that of the world-forming clay. Now there are other experiences. It is the dream that has surrounded us with symbolic representations that can rise to a perception of the formative forces.

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