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Phantafia, it follows, that, as Confcioufnefs belongs only to Intel- 

 lect, in our Dreams, which are truly fuch, and not operations of 

 our Intelledt, we have no Confcioufnefs nor Memory of any thing 

 that is part, but are entirely occupied with the prefent Phan- 

 tafms : And, as it is only by means of the Intelle<5l that we 

 recollcdl our Dreams, for want of which it is impoflible to be- 

 lieve that the Brutes have any recoUedlion of theirs, if our In- 

 telled he weak, or if the Sleep, we have been in, was very pro- 

 found, it is reafonable to fuppofe that, if there be any recoUedion 

 at all of our Dreams, it will be very imperfedt. And this, I think, 

 may account, both for children not remembering their Dreams, if 

 they have any, and for full grown people not remembering the 

 Dreams that they have in the beginning of the night when they 

 Sleep foundeft ; and I fhould fuppofe that thofe people vs^ho, it is faid, 

 do not Dream at all, were defeftive in the Intellea;, as well as the 

 Phantafia. 



4/0, From the fame principle, we may account for our having no 

 Idea in our Dreams of what is part, or of Time in general, which is 

 an Idea belonging entirely to Intelledl ; for, when we form the Idea 

 of Time, we compare together what \.sfuji and laji ; and the Inter- 

 val betwixt thefe two is what we call Time. Now, it is impofTible 

 that the Phantafia, any more than the Senfe, can make this compa- 

 rifon ; and therefore its objeds are all apprehended, like the ob- 

 jects of Senfe, without any diftindion of pad, prefent, or Future. 



5/0, The colours with which the Phantafia paints its objeds in our 

 Sleep muft be much more bright than when we are awake, and the 

 Shapes and Figures it reprefents more ftriking and lively, not only 

 for the reafons given above, but becaufe the operations of our Phan- 

 tafias are not difturbed and interrupted by the intrufion of the ob- 

 jeds of Senfe, as in the day-time ; and, becaufe our Minds being 



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