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blood. It is the memory that has sunk into ineffectuality, but yet operating through the trait developed by the race, as also the individual, in the forms of instinctive traits common to all individuals and special tendencies peculiar to the individual alone. It is therefore the background of our waking and imaginative life. The dream - consciousness analysed to its source of simplicity is the imaginative level which seeks fresh combinations in actuality, it is the creative factor of our life. The waking is the creative or imaginative phase of our being seeking manifestation conditioned by the deep unconscious. In dream-con-sciousness, the imagination may take the way of perversion of the unconscious or else a straight transfiguration of the unconscious or else it may argue for its continuation. In every case, the dream and the unconscious far from merely vanishing into each other seek that completion or satisfaction of their expression in the waking, the world of experience. The comparison thus means in other words, the unconscious level, is the level of the past, the biological background of our life; the dreaming is the future, the ideational and the imaginative and the waking- consciousness is the present - the meeting of both dream and the unconscious. But considered as a product of the strife between the unconscious universal background, the individuation of the individual must have been due only to his seeking to formulate his environment himself. The imaginative process or the process of associating a distinct activity instead of the routine makes for perfect individuation. Dream and ideation lead not a little to the culmination of creative activity. That intelligent occasion has got coherent conceptions whilst dream-life does not possess them reveals only that the imagination seeks expression somehow and factors of unconscious make that goal nebulous, in intelligent thought it becomes clear and coherent; the dream is the substitute for creative life of imagination and in the measure that it acts as the stimulus to creative art and formative evolution consists its claim to be called the intimator of futurity. Dream in the intelligent and developed people moves between the unconscious level of biological self and the future of the ideational level and becomes a house of conflicts, compensations and subtle expressions. The provocation of the biological life, undergone in the lower strata of being grip the entire life and coming into conflict with ethical and social norms of a civilized society, seeks escape in symbolism or else in and through a naked expression of the biological instinct. The symbolic activity is the activity of adjustment, which the dream refuses to express, when such