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tions 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 waking hours], we often find ourselves concerned with these actions, 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, especially all such as are extravagant, or have already performed certain actions, however, indeed, but conversely, in a vivid dream; the cause whereof is that the dream778(COM-movement has had a way paved for it from the original movements set up in the daytime; exactly so, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, or performing them, such as in the case of a sea-fight, to be classed as mere coinciden778(COMces, since the recurrence by day of the thought of these actions also has had its way paved for it in the images before the mind at night. Thus then it is quite conceivable that some dreams may be tokens and causes [of future events].

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