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our dreams we see and
con¬verse with friends

who are at the other
side of the world or have

been long dead. We may
even meet historical or

fictitious char¬acters
that we have read about

in books. We often lose
our identity and dream

that we are someone
else, and in the course of

a single dream may be
in turn several different

persons. Space and
time to the dreamer

lose their reality.

It is possible in a dream

that lasts a few seconds
to appear to have gone through the experience of many years. The

limitations of space may also vanish into nothing, so that we seem to

travel the most distant parts of the universe with the rapidity of thought.

Our imagination gains in some cases such complete control over our

reason that we can contemplate all such contradictions to our ordinary
experience without the least feeling of wonder. But this is not always the

case. It is impossible to assert as a universal rule that in a dream nothing,
however extraordinary, can surprise us.

Sometimes dreamers do have feeling of wonder at their strange

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