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any of these respects, should be more perceptible at night [than by day], since persons are more sensitive even to slight sensory movements when asleep than when awake., 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, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, 12429the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, and, when something has caused motion in water or air, because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night th12429e air is less disturbed, this [the portion of water or air], while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the beginnings [of the event to which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result 12429of pure coincidence, there being then less wind); and that they shall be perceived within the body owing to sleep, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, though the cause has ceased to operate, in whatever way they arriv12429e,