mself by his
bravery. He was then shot, but not killed, and, rolling over in agony,
exclaimed, "How long!" The development of an extreme emotion of horror
out of the vague feeling of awe which is associated with a church, gives
a curious interest to this dream.

_Verisimilitude in Dreams._

I must not dwell longer on this emotional basis of dreams, but pass to
the consideration of the second and objective kind of unity which
characterizes many of our more elaborate dream-performances. In spite of
all that is fitful and grotesque in dream-combination, it still
preserves a distant resemblance to our actual experience. Though no
dream reproduces a particular incident or chain of incidents in this
experience, though the dream-fancy invariably transforms the particular
objects, relations, and events of waking life, it still makes the order
of our daily experience its prototype. It fashions its imaginary world
on the model of the real. Thus, objects group themselves in space, and
act on one another conformably to these perceived space-relations;
events succeed one another in time, and are often seen to be connected;
men act from more or less intelligible motives, and so on. In this way,
though the dream-fancy sets at nought the particular relations of our
experience, it respects the general and constant relations. How are we
to account for this?

It is said by certain philosophers that this superposition of the
relations of space, time, causation, etc., on the products of our
dream-fancy is due to the fact that all experience arises by a synthesis
of mental forms with the chaotic matter of sense-impressions. These
philosophers allow, however, that all particular connections are
determined by experience. Accordingly, what we have to do here is to
inquire how far this scientific method of explaining mental connections
by facts of experience will carry us. In other words, we have to ask
what light can be thrown on these tendencies of dream-imagination by
ascertained psychological laws, and more particularly by what are known
as the laws of association.

These laws tell us that of two mental phenomena which occur together,
each will tend to recall the other whenever it happens to be revived. On
the physiological side, this means that any two parts of the nervous
structures which have acted together become in some way connected, so
that when one part begins to work the other will tend to work also. But
it is highly probable