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Perhaps
the
psychologists
of
the
book
will
find
fault
with
my
way
of
using
the
phrase
,
“
disassociation
of
personality
.
”
I
know
their
use
of
it
,
yet
am
compelled
to
use
it
in
my
own
way
in
default
of
a
better
phrase
.
I
take
shelter
behind
the
inadequacy
of
the
English
language
.
And
now
to
the
explanation
of
my
use
,
or
misuse
,
of
the
phrase
.
It
was
not
till
I
was
a
young
man
,
at
college
,
that
I
got
any
clew
to
the
significance
of
my
dreams
,
and
to
the
cause
of
them
.
Up
to
that
time
they
had
been
meaningless
and
without
apparent
causation
.
But
at
college
I
discovered
evolution
and
psychology
,
and
learned
the
explanation
of
various
strange
mental
states
and
experiences
.
For
instance
,
there
was
the
falling
-
through
-
space
dream
—
the
commonest
dream
experience
,
one
practically
known
,
by
first
-
hand
experience
,
to
all
men
.
This
,
my
professor
told
me
,
was
a
racial
memory
.
It
dated
back
to
our
remote
ancestors
who
lived
in
trees
.
With
them
,
being
tree
-
dwellers
,
the
liability
of
falling
was
an
ever
-
present
menace
.
Many
lost
their
lives
that
way
;
all
of
them
experienced
terrible
falls
,
saving
themselves
by
clutching
branches
as
they
fell
toward
the
ground
.
Now
a
terrible
fall
,
averted
in
such
fashion
,
was
productive
of
shock
.
Such
shock
was
productive
of
molecular
changes
in
the
cerebral
cells
.
These
molecular
changes
were
transmitted
to
the
cerebral
cells
of
progeny
,
became
,
in
short
,
racial
memories
.
Thus
,
when
you
and
I
,
asleep
or
dozing
off
to
sleep
,
fall
through
space
and
awake
to
sickening
consciousness
just
before
we
strike
,
we
are
merely
remembering
what
happened
to
our
arboreal
ancestors
,
and
which
has
been
stamped
by
cerebral
changes
into
the
heredity
of
the
race
.
There
is
nothing
strange
in
this
,
any
more
than
there
is
anything
strange
in
an
instinct
.
An
instinct
is
merely
a
habit
that
is
stamped
into
the
stuff
of
our
heredity
,
that
is
all
.
It
will
be
noted
,
in
passing
,
that
in
this
falling
dream
which
is
so
familiar
to
you
and
me
and
all
of
us
,
we
never
strike
bottom
.
To
strike
bottom
would
be
destruction
.
Those
of
our
arboreal
ancestors
who
struck
bottom
died
forthwith
.
True
,
the
shock
of
their
fall
was
communicated
to
the
cerebral
cells
,
but
they
died
immediately
,
before
they
could
have
progeny
.
You
and
I
are
descended
from
those
that
did
not
strike
bottom
;
that
is
why
you
and
I
,
in
our
dreams
,
never
strike
bottom
.
And
now
we
come
to
disassociation
of
personality
.
We
never
have
this
sense
of
falling
when
we
are
wide
awake
.
Our
wake
-
a
-
day
personality
has
no
experience
of
it
.
Then
—
and
here
the
argument
is
irresistible
—
it
must
be
another
and
distinct
personality
that
falls
when
we
are
asleep
,
and
that
has
had
experience
of
such
falling
—
that
has
,
in
short
,
a
memory
of
past
-
day
race
experiences
,
just
as
our
wake
-
a
-
day
personality
has
a
memory
of
our
wake
-
a
-
day
experiences
.
It
was
at
this
stage
in
my
reasoning
that
I
began
to
see
the
light
.
And
quickly
the
light
burst
upon
me
with
dazzling
brightness
,
illuminating
and
explaining
all
that
had
been
weird
and
uncanny
and
unnaturally
impossible
in
my
dream
experiences
.
In
my
sleep
it
was
not
my
wake
-
a
-
day
personality
that
took
charge
of
me
;
it
was
another
and
distinct
personality
,
possessing
a
new
and
totally
different
fund
of
experiences
,
and
,
to
the
point
of
my
dreaming
,
possessing
memories
of
those
totally
different
experiences
.
What
was
this
personality
?
When
had
it
itself
lived
a
wake
-
a
-
day
life
on
this
planet
in
order
to
collect
this
fund
of
strange
experiences
?
These
were
questions
that
my
dreams
themselves
answered
.
He
lived
in
the
long
ago
,
when
the
world
was
young
,
in
that
period
that
we
call
the
Mid
-
Pleistocene
.
He
fell
from
the
trees
but
did
not
strike
bottom
.
He
gibbered
with
fear
at
the
roaring
of
the
lions
.
He
was
pursued
by
beasts
of
prey
,
struck
at
by
deadly
snakes
.
