that the dream is not god-sent, that it is not of divine but of demonic origin. For nature is really demonic, not divine, that is to say, the dream is
not a supernatural revelation, but is subject to the laws of the human spirit, which has, of course, a kinship with the divine. The dream is defined
as the psychic activity of the sleeper, dreams might easily
betray to the physician the first indications of an incipient physical change which escaped observation during the day The first of these contrasts is formed by the strict isolation or seclusion of the
dream from true and actual life on the one hand, and on the other hand by the continuous encroachment of the one upon the other, and the
constant dependence of the one upon the other. The dream is something absolutely divorced from the reality experienced during the waking state;
one may call it an existence hermetically sealed up and insulated from real life by an unbridgeable chasm.but it is not
obvious why the anxiety in the corresponding phobia is so great, and why it torments its victims more than its cause would warrant. The same
explanation which applies to the phobia applies also to the anxiety-dream
