In any case they conduct us blindly and wildly from isle to isle, sometimes obeying a far cry which comes to them through the mist--some echoing signal of our waking hours.

So in a vision ever on we go! That is to say that even while we dream there is an unconscious cerebration or voluntarily exerted power loosely and irregularly imitating by habit, something like the action of our waking hours, especially its brown studies and fancies in drowsy reveries or play.
It seems to me as if this sleep-master or mistress--I prefer the latter--who attends to our dreams may be regarded as Instinct on the loose, for like instinct she acts without conscious reasoning.

She carries out, or realizes, trains of thought, or sequences with little comparison or deduction.

Yet within her limits she can do great work, and when we consider, we shall find that by following mere Law she has effected a great, nay, an immense, deal, which we attribute entirely to forethought or Reason.

As all this is closely allied to the action of the mind when hypnotized, it deserves further study.
Now it is a wonderful reflection that as we go back in animated nature from man to insects, we find self-conscious Intellect or Reason based on Reflection disappear, and Instinct taking its place.