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dreamlessly. Now let a sudden strong wind spring up as some- 
times happens; the air strikes the sleeper and chills him. The 
sensitive nerves of the skin are excited, and transmit their excite- 
ut 
war, had deserted, had been captured, and was about to be shot. 
The discharge of the guns that were to kill him, wakened him, 
and was the sound of the door that had actually been slammed. 
His dream had occupied the space of time between hearing the 
sound and his awakening. 
Dreams, then, in their philosophical aspect may be defined as 
the attempt of the understanding’ to think a sensation by placing 
it in connection with other sensations which it invents for the 
usual 
think, 
Of course when the dreamer awakes, his understanding at once 
P a or eag the liberty of using the terms employed by Kant in his Kritik of 
nig at. 
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