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The mechanisms of dreams and of hallucinations are compared, the
dream being regarded as a regressive psychosis of everyday life, both showing a faulty reality-testing function of the ego. The parallelism between hallucinations and symptoms of conversion hysteria as repetitions of unconscious material, the first in sensory and the second in bodily terms, is discussed. The mechanism of the transformation from mental to bodily or sensory terms remains unexplained.