Phævomenon of Dreaming 15

roory, and the reviving the real impressionsfrom external objects, formerly lodged inthe brain, disturbs these scenes 5 and so bringsus back to our former state, and rescues usfrom our uneasiness (/). Instances of thiskind are as various as frequent: sometimeswe are threatened in steep, from #strange and

Multi de magnis per somnum rebu’ loquuntur ,

Indicioque sui faSh per Jape fit ere :

Multi mortem obeunt ; multi de montibus altisSe quasi prœcipitent ad terr am corpore totoExterrentur , & ex somno , quasi mentibu ’ capti,

Vix ad se redeunt , permoti corporis astu.

{f) Here I may refer to the experience of most men,if ever they were sensible of greater pleasure, than some-times when they have awakened out of a dream, andfound that it was not real. It is indeed in these cafes,like awaking from misery to happiness, and from deathto life. A circumstance which but ill agrees with the opi-nion, that the foul forms, and presents those troublefomappearances to itself. And sometimes the impressions areso lasting, and the images so lively, that it is with dif-ficulty we can persuade ourselves, after we are awakened,that the things we saw were not real. The reason ofthis seems to be, that the impressions are so strong, andhave so thoroughly possessed the mind with a belief ofthe reality of the things represented, that it is some timebefore they can be worn out, or the mind recover itselffrom the astonishment it was in.

I