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or are engaged in any course of action, it must happen that the movements set up first in sleep should also prove to be starting-points of actions to be performed in the daytime, or have already performed certain actions, or performing them, but conversely, it is not improbable that some of the presentations which come before the mind in sleep may even be causes of the actions cognate to each of them. For as when we are about to act [in waki97(42kx(COMng hours], indeed, in a vivid dream; the cause whereof is that the dream-movement has had a way paved for it from the original movements set up in the daytime; exactly so,manifest that these beginnings must be more evident 97(42kx(COMin sleeping than in waking moments.

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