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Of particular importance to the man eager to get on in the world is the new light their investigations have thrown on the faculties of observation, memory, and imagination. Perhaps you who read these lines account yourself most unobserving, forgetful, and un- imaginative. The truth of the matter seems to be that the subconscious part of you perceives everything that comes within range of your sense organs, forgets nothing, and is un-commonly imaginative. As is, for example, strikingly demonstrated in the familiar phenomenon of dreams.

Certainly your dreams are not prosaic commonplaces. They are imaginative in the extreme, sometimes to an almost incredible degree. Yet they are unmistakably the product of your own mind. You are indebted for them to nobody but yourself. And they point directly to the possession by you of a faculty susceptible of cultivation in your waking moments, and of practical helpfulness to you in the winning of success.

You have had, everybody has had, dreams of romantic and thrilling adventure. In your sleep you have composed stories surpassing in interest any a novelist could give you, and holding you fascinated not least because you yourself have been the central figure in them.