Ich lese ja zur Zeit Mary Arnold-Forsters "Studies in Dreams" (1921). Das Buch ist wirklich großartig und gefällt mir weit besser als die zeitgenössische Traumliteratur. Hier ein sehr interessanter Gedankengang:
It will be seen from these extracts from my notes
on flying dreams that beyond the power of eliminating
or ending bad dreams, which has been a great gain,
the measure of control that I have been able to acquire
is limited, amounting to a certain power of making a
favourite dream recur more or less at will, and of being
able greatly to increase its pleasurable features. Beyond
this I have not gone, and perhaps if our success
were greater, if our control were to become more
perfect, our pleasure in dreaming would be lessened.
If our dreams could be successfully harnessed and
brought under even the measure of discipline to which
our wandering thoughts have to submit by day, they
would cease to have the charm which their unexpectedness gives them and with the loss of freedom they
would lose one of their greatest attractions. But we
need not fear - nature will take only too good care
that our control shall not go too far, and that the
spontaneity and freedom of our dreams shall never be too seriously crippled.
It will be seen from these extracts from my notes
on flying dreams that beyond the power of eliminating
or ending bad dreams, which has been a great gain,
the measure of control that I have been able to acquire
is limited, amounting to a certain power of making a
favourite dream recur more or less at will, and of being
able greatly to increase its pleasurable features. Beyond
this I have not gone, and perhaps if our success
were greater, if our control were to become more
perfect, our pleasure in dreaming would be lessened.
If our dreams could be successfully harnessed and
brought under even the measure of discipline to which
our wandering thoughts have to submit by day, they
would cease to have the charm which their unexpectedness gives them and with the loss of freedom they
would lose one of their greatest attractions. But we
need not fear - nature will take only too good care
that our control shall not go too far, and that the
spontaneity and freedom of our dreams shall never be too seriously crippled.