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90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Origin of Karma 14 Nov 1904, Berlin

The spark of Manas did not help the others quickly, because that can only be when Kama sets the physical particles of the brain in motion. The thoughts are as if in a bed. It was a dream-like thinking that took hold here: dreamers, highly developed animals, dull humans. They would have continued to exist on earth if a third group had not intervened.
The Arhats, of course, only inherited perfect qualities, the dream beings inherited human qualities in ever-increasing potency. These inherited a deteriorated human form, and that is original sin.
324a. The Fourth Dimension (2024): Second Lecture 31 Mar 1905, Berlin

If you only imagined [two-dimensionally], you would [only] have a dream image in front of you, but you would have no idea that there is an object outside. Our imagination is a direct inversion of our ability to imagine [external objects by means of] four-dimensional space. The human being in the astral state [during earlier stages of human evolution] was only a dreamer, he had only such ascending dream images.” He then passed from the astral realm to physical space. Thus we have mathematically defined the transition from the astral to the [physical-] material being.
100. Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Further Stages of the Development of Our Earth 25 Jun 1907, Kassel
Translator Unknown

And that old clairvoyance appeared as the enhancement of our present dream-life. Imagine the highest enhancement of this dream-life: this would lead you to the conceptual capacity, to the ancient, dull, dream-like clairvoyance of the Atlantean.
346. Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse: Lecture XIV 18 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translator Unknown

It exists as feeling during the waking state, and as pictorial dreams while we're asleep. The only difference between dreams and feelings is that one is the content of the soul during the waking state and the other is its content during sleep.
Our feeling life is not a mirror image of this real form but an image of it which is maintained in our soul by creative elemental powers. We only dream of this soul world in our feelings and there is no reality in our image of it. What constitutes men's bodies on earth today does not develop any consciousness of archetypes, but it contains the strongest realities of existence.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Human and Animal World

In the natural order, the spirits of form are at work (with the higher hierarchies); they are contained in everything that man perceives in mineral and plant nature - therein sleeps and dreams his ego and his soul body - during physical life -; during spiritual life, man is in a world that is composed of the ideas and feelings experienced in the human and animal.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Development of Beings 16 Feb 1904, Berlin

—Each round has the task of developing a state to normal. In the third round: highly developed dream state of consciousness. The effect originated from the Mahat through rapport. Before that, they had plant consciousness, and the spiritual beings took care of them.
147. Secrets of the Threshold: Lecture V 28 Aug 1913, Munich
Translated by Ruth Pusch

You could describe it by saying that he had to strain every nerve so much in deciphering this complicated stuff that, even though the subject interested him immensely, he had to suppress a desire to yawn and to sink into a kind of dream state. Before our good professor dropped completely into a dream, however, Dame Balde joined them and listened for a while to the expounding of numbers and structures.
An uncomfortable feeling spread among the visionaries in the fortress—we must remember that Felicia is telling a fairy tale—and these visionaries, as well as all the others, fell into a kind of dream state. The figure from above divided into separate clouds of light, but these were seized upon by the besiegers and darkened by them, so that gradually the people of the fortress were held in a dream.
243. True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation: What is the Position in Respect of Spiritual Investigation and the Understanding of Spiritual Investigation? 22 Aug 1924, Torquay
Translated by A. H. Parker

With his understanding man penetrates in his dreams into this world concealed behind the phenomenal world, in a vague, indefinite way as I have already pointed out.
And this threefold consciousness—clear waking consciousness, dream consciousness and sleep consciousness (one would like to say absence of consciousness but one can only describe it as diminished consciousness)—belong to the Ego as it is today.
When it looks outwards, it knows waking (day) consciousness, dream consciousness and sleep consciousness. When it looks inwards, it knows clear intellectual consciousness; a sentient consciousness, a sentient life, though this is far more opaque and dreamlike than one usually imagines; it knows als1˃ a sentient life and finally the dim, twilight will-consciousness that resembles the state of deep sleep.
230. Man as Symphony of the Creative Word: Lecture IX 04 Nov 1923, Dornach
Translated by Judith Compton-Burnett

Yes, you see, here come the gnomes and speak somewhat as follows: You dream your self, And shun awakening. The gnomes know that man possesses his ego as though in a dream, that he must first awaken in order to arrive at his true ego. They see this quite clearly, and call to him in his sleep: You dream your self —they mean during the day— And shun awakening.
But that which has, as it were, been uttered as a call into the world by these elemental beings is the final reverberation of that creative, upbuilding, form-giving world-word which lies at the base of all activity and all existence. Gnomes: You dream your Self, And shun awakening. I maintain the life-force in the root, It creates for me my body's form.
161. Festivals of the Seasons: The Baldor Myth and the Good Friday Mystery II 03 Apr 1915, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

When man has gone through his imaginative Jupiter consciousness, a time will come in which he has again only his earthly consciousness, which will then bear a relationship to the Jupiter consciousness, like our present dream-consciousness to our day-consciousness. When man enters into this Jupiter earthly consciousness, into this repetition of his earthly consciousness, then it will be borne in upon him that he would like to have a kind of inner retrospect, a kind of survey of all that he has attained as Earthman, of all that he has won for himself throughout the whole of his past.
And because we put this question, because we sum up this result, there will come before the soul in a mighty Jupiter dream vision what we have actually attained. But this Jupiter dream will have as great a reality as all our actual earthly perceptions; it will not come before us as a dream-picture, but it will have all the reality which an earthly human being has who stands before us.

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