Chapter 325
part ihruft in, and the reft, which is diffufed
through the limbs,^rc not able to difebarge their office, by reafon that they are intercepted^' Und not joined one to anotlier. lan. .
I add, that this happens from the Food'^tb, lucres* becaufe the Food, being cenvey’d inw^dly by- the Veins, performs the fame thing, as the ^ Air, and that with more abundant and greater force.
Whence it comes to pafs, that the Sleep wHich is caufed by Meal, by reafon of the greater d:i- fturbance of thofe Particles, is more found than ordinary, as is that alfo which proceeds from exceffive wearinefs, by reafon of their greater diffipation. :I
Now forafmuch as it may feem ftrange, that Lucres, Dreams fhould come to ns in Sleep, wemUft oV ferve. what was faid not long fince, that every where there are Images of innumerable things, continually roving up and down, which' fon of their fubtlety, are able to penetrStedpta the Body, and able to ftrike and affed the Mind, which is feated in the midlfc of th6 Bfeaft,^!© as it is ftirred up to think of thofc things Vihef^of they are the images, 1 Hereupon, forafm'nth a? thefe penetrate and ftrike the Midd ' ij6 'lefs in fleep, tban dn wakingy it comes to paft that jwc 1 feem to behold things as well in fleep as awjA^l,
But it happens, that We’ receive the thijigV which appear to us in thii manner as trte, be¬ caule QuttSehfes being ftupified, nothing 'rthbcr cur to us, that may give us notice of andcbnvince tbfeFalficy bytfue things 1 'and tides, our Memory being laid afleep, We''i^OT ( for example,) thofe Mi'n to bfe aliy^fWno^^are dead,bceaufe their Im^^^’we prefwit tp us;;aad we remember ilot tlieir' d^ath. if'
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