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ere 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, when once set moving, as it were, should be more perceptible at night [than by day], derelict, as we have explained the matter, or totally vacant, and, because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is less disturbed, but, there being taa(39bo(COMhen less wind); and that they shall be perceived within the body owing to sleep, since persons are more sensitive even to slight sensory movements when asleep than when awake. It is these movements then that cause ‘presentations’, as a result of which sleepers foresee aa(39bo(COMthe future even relatively to such events as those referred to above. These considerations also explain why this experience befalls commonplace persons and not the most intelligent. For it would have regularly occurred both in the daytime and to the wise had it been Goaa(39bo(COMd who sent it; but, it is quite natural that commonplace persons should be those who have foresight [in dreams]. For the mind of such persons is not given to thinking, in whatever way they arrive, is borne passively on in the direction taken by that which moves it. Witaa(39bo(COMh reg,