spontaneous-automatism

Updated: June 21, 2025

Now we shall see that this is the direct reverse of real living consciousness. In living consciousness the primary affective centers control the great organs. But when sleep is on us, the reverse takes place. The great organs, being obstructed in their spontaneous-automatism, at last with violence arouse the active conscious-centers. And these flash images to the brain.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Fantasia of the Unconscious