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who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, 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, should be more perceptible at night [than by day], because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is less 7887disturbed, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, in whatever way they arrive, and,uch dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, though the cause has ceased to operate, since persons are more sensitive even to slight sens7887ory movements when asleep than when awake. It is these movements then that cause ‘presentations’, there being then less wind); and that they shall be perceived within the body owing to sleep, the following would be a better explanation o7887f it than that proposed by Democritus, when something has caused motion in water or air, this [the portion of water or air], as a result of which sleepers foresee the future even relatively to such events as those referred to above. Thes7887e cons,