TY - JOURS T1 - Was spricht sich in den Schlafphasen des Menschen aus? Brettschneider, Heinrich JAS - Jahr für Goethe. JF - Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus PY - 2010 VL - 2010 SP - 159 EP - 214 DO - 10.18756/jfg.2010.159 SN - Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 LA - de N2 - N1 - What is expressed in a persons sleeping phasesWhereas contemporary psychologists and philosophers puzzle over whether there is any such thing as consciousness sleep researchers are in surprising agreement that the human being daily passes through three different forms of consciousness waking sleeping dreaming But just as modern science in general is helpless regarding the question of What is life sleep researchers are unsure why human beings have to sleep It is clear only empirically that this is so The discussion presented here reaches the possibly provocative conclusion that the dream state of the human being bears some thoroughly psychopathological traces Dreamers are deeply involved in their own soul worlds incapable of selfirony and logic and in addition are totally cut off from the external physical world both scnsorially and as regards motor action But dreamless sleep also has clear psychopathological features as soon as it gains the upper hand ie in cases of prolonged sleep In comparison the waking state seems to us the psychically most normal form of consciousness But that it also becomes pathological as soon as it alone exists is confi rmed above all else because people must sleep otherwise they die It is true that we still do not know what life is However we now have a clearer picture of what is healthy for it health is the rhythmic alternation of waking sleeping and dreaming And this is so even though each of the three individual states has thoroughly pathological features Thus health equals rhythm AB - ST - Was spricht sich in den Schlafphasen des Menschen aus? UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2010.159 Y2 - 2025-04-16 12:21:31 ER -