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the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, should be more perceptible at night [than by day], and, since persons are more sensitive even to slight sensory movements when asleep than when awake. It is these movements then that cause ‘presentations’, in whatever way they arrive, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, as a result of which sleepers foresee the future even relatively to such events as those referred to above. These considerations also explain why this ex233(COMperience befalls commonplace persons and not the most intelligent. For it would have regularly occurred both in the daytime and to the wise had it bee, because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is less 233(COMdisturbed, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus represents ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ coming; that such movements,233(COM when something has caused motion in water or air, though the cause has ceased to operate, this [the portion of water or air], such motion propagates itself to a certain point, there being then less wind); and that they shall be perceived within the body owing to 233(COMsleep,