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well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach
sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus represents âimagesâ
and âemanationsâ coming; that such movements, in whatever way they arrive,
should be more perceptible at night [than by day], because when proceeding
thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is
less disturbed, there being then less wind); and that they shall be perceived
within the body owing to sleep, since persons are more sensitive even to
slight sensory movements when asleep than when awake. It is these
movements then that cause âpresentationsâ, as a result of which sleepers
foresee the future even relatively to such events as those referred to above.
These considerations also explain why this experience befalls commonplace
persons and not the most intelligent. For it would have regularly occurred
both in the daytime and to the wise had it been God who sent it; but, as we
have explained the matter, it is quite natural that commonplace persons should
be those who have foresight [in dreams]. For the mind of such persons is not
given to thinking, but, as it were, derelict, or totally vacant, and, when once
set moving, is borne passively on in the direction taken by that which moves
it. With regard to the fact that some persons who are liable to derangement
have this foresight, its explanation is that their normal mental movements do
not impede [the alien movements], but are beaten off by the latter. Therefore
it is that they have an especially keen perception of the alien movements.
That certain persons in particular should have vivid dreams, e.g. that
familiar friends should thus have foresight in a special degree respecting one
another, is due to the fact that such friends are most solicitous on one
anotherâs behalf. For as acquaintances in particular recognize and perceive
one another a long way off, so also they do as regards the sensory movements
respecting one another; for sensory movements which refer to persons
familiarly known are themselves more familiar. Atrabilious persons, owing to
their impetuosity, are, when they, as it were, shoot from a distance, expert at
hitting; while, owing to their mutability, the series of movements deploys
quickly before their minds. For even as the insane recite, or con over in
thought, the poems of Philaegides, e.g. the Aphrodite, whose parts succeed in
order of similitude, just so do they [the âatrabiliousâ] go on and on stringing
sensory movements together. Moreover, owing to their aforesaid impetuosity,
one movement within them is not liable to be knocked out of its course by
some other movement.
The most skilful interpreter of dreams is he who has the faculty of
observing resemblances. Any one may interpret dreams which are vivid and
plain. But, speaking of âresemblancesâ, I mean that dream presentations are
analogous to the forms reflected in water, as indeed we have already stated. In
the latter case, if the motion in the water be great, the reflexion has no
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156