History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.218

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In modern¹²⁶¹ times many educated people think dreams as of no consequence whatever, while there are others who regard dreams as almost infallible indicators of coming events; there is also a third class of people who are willing to listen to the arguments advanced on behalf of the interpreters of dreams and also of those who regard thoughts on the use and value of dreams as frivolous To those who want to hear arguments on both sides and to form a judgment of their own about dreams, I would recommend the ‘Fabric of Dreams’ by Catherine Taylor Craig (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, London, 1918); Freud’s ‘Interpretation of dreams’ is the most important of his works, in which he develops his psycho-analytic technique. Then there is the work ‘Second sight in daily life’ by W H. W. Sabine who has a theory of his own. His work deals with precognition (or foreknowledge) which according to him is a subdivision of Extra-sensory perception He propounds the theory that the mind comprises of not only normal memory appearing to derive from physical perception but also ‘anticipatory memory’ deriving from the Basic Experience which from time to time passes to some degree into conscious awareness Time is one and does not exist except as a verbal convenience and that what we call ‘future’ has already happened but it is not indicated in what form it has happened Considerations of space and relevance preclude further discussion of this subject here