PS--Love that Fromm says this, *In modern Western culture, almost exclusively focused on activity in the sense of mastery over nature, the comprehension of symbolic language has atrophied. Dreams are remnants of a legitimate mode of human expression, one well known, now looked up as if they were undecipherable hieroglyphs.* 
Speaks to the "impatience divide" I experience, and the waking mind that wants to make sense and catergorize the dreaming.  Uggh, crazy to think I don't like that when people approach my writings/creativity in such a way, but then I am turning around and subjecting myself and dreams to the same!?
Also, enjoyed Van Eeden and his thoughts surrounding the splitting off of parts of ourselves and how those not only occur in the waking realm, but the sleeping.  I think in considering "parts," psychology (Internal Family Systems) that becoming aware of when a part of us takes the lead is easier if we experience I new vision, or changing dream perception just as it happens....for example, when we're listening to someone and suddenly are off in a daydream and have to ask them to please repeat whatever they were saying.  It's as if their words have triggered a new one of us coming to the forefront, ie. in IFS language, a firefighter, a protector or an inner critic.