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so that the poem is only a fragment.

Not only the imagination but also the reason has been known to do good

work in dreams. There are instances of mathemati¬cians solving in their
sleep problems that they had vainly puzzled over when awake.

All the fact that we have been considering are so various that they chiefly
illustrate the extreme difficulty of making any general statement about

dreams.

They show that in many cases dream- life is very different from real life,

and that in other cases mind of a sleeping man works much in the same

way as if he was awake.

Perhaps the only definite general statement that can be made on the
subject is that imagination even in sleep cannot originate anything,

although it has an almost unlimited power of uniting together in more or

less unusual or even in impossible combinations what we have actually
experienced.

10.1. Match the following words with their antonyms.

a. difference i. collapse
b. doubtful ii. mild

c. catch iii. similarity
d. fictitious iv. confident
e. erect v. release

f. extreme vi. real
10.2. State whether the following sentences are true or false.

a. Dreams are different from a real life.
b. Arabian Nights is a play and Life a Dream is a story.

c. We can sometimes misunderstand a real life event as a dream.

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