Dreams should be considered as imperfectly perceived conditions.

"They should be considered in the category of imperfectly perceived conditions, just as stimuli coming from the outer world also distort the fantasy thinking common to sleep. Too many covers, producing the sensation of weight, may cause the individual to dream of lying between the closing jaws of some huge press."

The life view of atheistic materialism.

"Atheistic materialism, with its view that life is nothing more than a mechanism, postulates that time in essence, is not different from the other three dimensions.

It holds to the attitude that what appears to our consciousness as the passing of time, in reality is our consciousness moving along a fixed time dimension in which not only the past, but also the future is unalterable."

A materialistic world view denies the existence of the soul.

It takes this view because it denies the existence of a soul which functions apart from physical conditions and which possesses intelligence and initiative to change the future of its world-lines; for in a perfectly predetermined scheme of things, in a universe where all conditions are caused by purely mechanical reactions, the world-lines would thus be fixed throughout their total length.

However, it is easy to fall into the erroneous assumption that a mathematical formula which is valid for objects possessing neither intelligence or initiative is equally valid for intelligent life."