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should be more perceptible at night [than by day], 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, since persons are more sensitive even to slight sensory movements when asleep than when awake. It is these movements then that cause ‘presentations’, but, in whatever way they arrive, as we have explained the matter, as it were, because when proceeding71dy thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is less disturbed, there being then less wind); and that they shall be perceived within the body owing to sleep, as a result of which sleepers fo71dyresee the 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 b71dyoth in the daytime and to the wise had it been God who sent it; but, a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus represents ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ coming; that such movem71dyents,