ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the changes of the experience process into two types: sleep regulation and play regulation. It presents many situations in which these regulations are applied but which have nothing to do with sleep nor with play. Children's play seems to be a matter-of-fact expression of their childish nature. Play —just like awakeness and sleep — is a product of inner and not of outer adaptation. Play, an expression of the highest phases of evolution, corresponds with sleep, especially REM sleep. Inner adaptation is not pursued in such a rigid and complete way, that it does justice to the requirements of the outer adaptation. Play and dream originate as variations of the inner adaptation, which — as goal of the organism — can be fully realized only in creative communication processes. The sphere of the inner adaptation is the creative nucleus of life, which is indifferent to all points of view of outer adaptation and its aims and goals.
