It can however happen in circumstances where the transference of the day-consciousness to the spiritual state is not entirely perfect and the individual as a consequence of this finds himself in a kind of intermediate stage between physical and spiritual existence – for example, through fever, disease, drugged states or the like – that spiritual memories can merge with physical memories and thereby enter into the individual's awake physical day-consciousness. Such fused spiritual and physical memories are expressed in daily existence by the term "dreams". Dreams are thus, because of this, their abnormal and uncontrolled appearance, to a corresponding degree unreliable. But to the developed cosmic being, who consciously, or by means of his will, can carry out these transformations of the day-consciousness from one body of manifestation to the other, and whose body of memory appears in a somewhat more pronounced constellation to the body of gravity and the body of feeling than that of the terrestrial human being, these spiritual experiences are not "dreams" but fully awake experiences and thereby conscious facts.