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the dream is, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, actions to be performed in the daytime, it may be concluded that dreams, such as in the case of a sea-fight, however, especially all such as are extravagant, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, should this not happen also in sleep? ThWWW(tt258e probability is, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, to him who has seen it, so, then, that many such things should happen. As, indeed, to be classed as mere coincidences, on mentioning something, rather, in the parallel instWWW(tt258ance, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, since the recurrence by day of the thought of these actions also has had its way paved for it in thWWW(tt258e images before the mind at night. Thus then it is quite conceivable that some dreams may be tokens and causes [of future events].

Most [so-called prophetic] dreams are, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
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