Select the correct text in the passage.
Which statement from the passage best shows that people have ways of avoiding unpleasant memories?
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excerpt from the Introduction to Dreams by Henri Bergson
by Edwin E. Slosson
Bergson's view indicates that we keep stored away somewhere all our memories, the good as well as
the evil, the pleasant together with the unpleasant. There may be nightmares down cellar, as we
thought as a child, but even in those days we knew how to dodge them when we went after apples; that
is, take down a light and slam the door quickly on coming up.
Further, Bergson believes that dreaming is not so unlike the ordinary process of perception as had
been hitherto supposed. Both use sense impressions as crude material to be molded and defined by
the aid of memory images. Here, too, he set forth the idea, which he, so far as I know, was the first to
formulate, that sleep is a state of disinterested, a theory which has since been adopted by several
psychologists
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