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The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Erich Fromm
Sleep, Men, World
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm
Dream, Sleep, Understanding
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.7, Open Road Media

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

Erich Fromm
Dream, Sleep, Reality
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Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Erich Fromm
Sleep, Culture, States
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In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Erich Fromm
Sleep, States, Oneself
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The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

Erich Fromm
Country, Sleep, Average
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Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

Erich Fromm
Dream, Plato, Sleep
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[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

Erich Fromm
Dream, Sleep, Symbolism

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm
Dream, Sleep, Men
Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.170, Open Road Media

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

Erich Fromm
Mean, Sleep, Average
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