At night, however, when the deadening influence of daytime impressions has ceased, the impressions forcing their way up from the interior are able to gain attention – much as at night we hear the bubbling of the spring that the day’s din made imperceptible. But how else is the intellect to react to those stimuli than by performing its own peculiar function? In other words, it moulds the stimuli into figures that occupy space and time and dance to the strings of causality – and this gives rise to dream.
