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uttered in her fleep. Now, as I have obferved in my Firft Vo- 

 lume *, the difference betwixt dreaming and night-walking is, 

 that we remember our dreams, but never what we do when we 

 are in the other flate f- 'idly, Our dreams are compofed of what is 

 at the time in our memory and our phantafia, not of things which 

 never were there, or, though they may have been there, are, at the 

 time we dream, utterly forgot and obliterated. Thus, in our dreams, 

 we fpeak or hear a language which we underftand, though it may 

 not be our native language; but we neither fpeak nor hear a language 

 that we never underftood, or, having once underftood, have utterly 

 forgot. In the fame manner, we fee in our fleep perfons that we 

 know, or have known, and ftill retain the memory of, but never 

 perfons that we know not, or have never known. At the fame 

 time, I do not deny that, in our dreams, as well as in night-walk- 

 ing, the Mind may perceive objects that it never perceived before 

 or, perhaps, never could perceive by any of the five Senfes. That 

 it will have fuch perceptions in a ftate of perfeft feparation from 

 the body, I have not the leaft doubt. Nor do I deny that, even in 

 this life, it may perceive ivhat eye hath not feen, nor ear heard 

 neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive. But this 

 I hold to be fupernatural : And of this kind I believe Lucullus's 

 dream to have been, which I have mentioned in ihe Firft Volume t, 

 and likewife the dream concerning Pompey §. And if the Coratefle 

 had fpoken a language that fhe had never before underftood, I fhould 

 have thought the cafe altogether beyond Nature, and not to be ac- 

 counted for upon any principles of philofophy that I know. 



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t Arillotle has obferved this in his treatife De Somno et Vigilia ; and he fays that, 

 in his Problems, he has given a reafon for this difference betwixt dreaming and 

 night viralking ; but I have not been able to find the paffagc. 



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