This Convenience presents another argument for the relativity of dream work. The writer asserts that dreams are connected to other dreams, and that they, and experiences, are not linear manifestations.
They are events that form, un-form, and re-form constantly.
Convenience scholars have located the original text for this piece in The Psychology of Attention, published by Ribot in 1890. The image of the clock comes from Electrical Clocks and Clockwork by Henry Dent Gardner, 1879.
The Basic Condition of Dream Life
namely, change, is not a chain, a series.
It is a mobile aggregate which is being incessantly formed, unformed, and re-formed.
More than once it happens that a dream evokes another dream
because there is a common emotional fact which unites them,
given time.
