Phænomenon of Dreaming. 21

®oncomitant circumstances, that cannot pro-perly be called dreaming: especially this, thatduring such representations, the soul hathsome very right notions, and makes true con-clusions, which are not to be included in thevision, or made a distinct faculty from itsWaking reason (1 ): and that it proceeds sofar in its exactness sometimes, as to be con-scious that the things represented to it arebut illusions (m ); which it should never notdo, one would think, if it produced theseillusions itself. And he distinguishes the ge-nuine operations of the foul itself, from whatit is merely passive in beholding, by campar-ing our sleeping with our waking state; in

before to distinguish from the all circum-

stances that might be mistaken for it.

(1) In the words immediately before these last cited,having concluded > >dils itvmor tpdlhv. He adds,

ocrcct b t&j vttvoj ytvovJui ccX^Sei? tvvoiai, Tco ipav-

' rxa It would be absurd to fay any thing is the vi-sion that the foul does itself, e. g. To say I dreamed thatJ thought is improper, since I really thought what Ithought; nor would it be less improper to fay, Idreamedthat I saw, or that I heard-, for I had really these per-,ceptions, though their objects did not exist externally.

(ujJ Koci 0T6 fit-J, yj d'o^a Xcyci OTt To osfLSVQV, ucsffzg

b^fopof ore St, Kulc'xfla, xa l atu^tiVa <p«»WjMcli. Ibid.cap. i.

C 3 which,