More of States

These quotes also worked to elucidate Hillman for me...or perhaps Hillman elucidates States...

“[D]reaming affords us an opportunity to inhabit thought processes that occur regularly in waking thinking but are beneath observation due to the pressing sensory demands of life in the waking world. Dreaming involves thought and perception in a world state in which it is difficult to distinguish one from the other, means from ends, or processes from products” (States 13-14).

“[M]onstrosities are simply extreme variations of the dream image’s peculiar normalcy” (States 32).

There is, generally, in a dream, no moment where we go Whoa! Wait a minute! This can’t be real! This is also a quality of literature that truly reproduces the mind of a dream, refuses to merely imitate the unreal or supernatural aspect of dreams as opposed to the condition of dreaming itself. There can be no double-minded thinking which demonstrates a reflective or evaluative stream of thought through which the narrator places a scene in some normative perspective. (States 34, 35)