*6o OP REVERIE. SECT. XiX. i. 



SECT. XIX. 



OF REVERIE. 



i. Various degrees of reverie. 2. Sleep-walkers. 

 Cafe of a young lady. Great furprife at awaking. 

 And total forgetfulnefs of what faffed in reverie. 

 3. No fufpenfion of 'volition in reverie. 4. Senji- 

 live motions continue ', and are confident. 5. Irri- 

 iative motions continue, but are not fucceeded by 

 fenfation. 6 Volition mceffary for the perception 

 of feeble impreffions. -7. AJfrciated motions continue. 

 8. Nerves offenfe are irritable in fleep> but not in 

 reverie. 9. Somnambuli are not afleep. Contagion 

 received but once. \ o. Definition of reverie. 



i, WHEN we are employed with great fenfation 

 of pleafure, or with great efforts of volition, in the 

 purfuit of fome interefting train of ideas, we ceafe 

 to be confcious of our exiilence, are inattentive to 

 time and place, and do not diftinguifh this train of 

 fenfitive and voluntary ideas from the irritative ones 

 excited by the prefence of external objecls, though 

 our organs of ienfe are furrounded with their ac- 

 cuilorned ftimuli, till at length this interefting train 

 of ideas becomes exhaufted, or the appulfes of ex- 

 ternal objects are applied with unufual violence, 

 and we return with furprife, or with regret, into 

 the common track of life. This is termed reverie 

 or ftudium. 



In fome conftitutions thefe reveries continue a 

 confiderable time, and are not to be removed 

 without greater difficulty, but are experienced in 

 a lefs degree by us all ; when we attend earneftly 

 to the ideas excited by volition or fenfation, with 

 their ailbciated connexions, but are at the fame 



time 



