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the Pliantafia, which is the feat of Dreams, may be confidered as a 

 fecondary Scnfc, fupplying the place of tlic five Scnfes \Yhen they 

 cannot operate, cither through weariiiefs, as in Sleep, or bccaufe 

 their objedls are not within their reach ; and, as it belongs to the 

 Animal Nature, fo it is common to us with fome of the Brutes, as 

 Ariftotle has obferved *» 



Secundo, As our Dreams are fo much connected with our 

 Senfations, it is certain that they, as well as our Scnfations, de- 

 pend very much upon the habit of our Body. Sick men's dreams 

 are wild and extravagant, even to a proverb : But, on the contrary, 

 the Dreams of men in good health, and that live temperately and 

 regularly, and whofe Minds are not difordered by unruly paffions, 

 are commonly not wild or extravagant, but containing fome regular 

 ftory, which, if we wake and fall afleep again, is often refumcd and 

 carried on. 



Tertio, Our Dreams not only depend upon the habit of our Bo- 

 dy, but alfo upon our age or time of life ; and I believe it is true 

 what Ariftotle has obferved, that children do not commonly Dream. 

 And he fays further, that fome men, when they are young, have no 

 Dreams, but, when they are farther advanced in life, they have 

 them. And he adds, that fome never Dream through their whole 

 lives ; but this, he fays, is rare "f. 



^larto. When we Sleep foundeft, which is generally in the be- 

 ginning of the night, we very often do not Dream, or, at leaft, we 

 do not recoiled our Dreams, if we fliould happen to be then a- 

 waked ; but it is generally in the morning, or after midnight, 

 when we do not Sleep fo found : So that what Horace favs, 



H 2 Pod 



• Lib. de Divinatione per Infomnium, cap. 2- in initio. 

 i Lib. de Infomniia, in fine. 



