General Reflections on Sleep and Dreaming, with refer ence to some remarkable Accounts CHAPTER XIV. On the Nature and efficient Cause of Dreams 26 54 CHAPTER XV. On the Operations of the Mind in the Production of Dreams CHAPTER XVI. 68 88 38 On the Recurrence of those Reflections in Sleep, which have engaged our Attention when awake CHAPTER XVIII. Page 97 On the Influence of the Body on the Mind in Sleep 111 CHAPTER XIX. 126 CHAPTER XX. Of the Use of fictitious Dreams in Literature 145 98, note † for qui somniant read quia somniunt 117, 12, for sensation read sensations THE THEORY OF DREAMS, &c. CHAPTER XII. FARTHER ACCOUNT OF MODERN DREAMS. "You will own, 'tis no small pleasure with mankind to make their dreams pass for realities; and that the love of truth is, in earnest, not half so prevalent as this passion for novelty and surprise, joined with a desire of making im pression and being admired. However, I am so charitable still as to think, there is more of innocent delusion than voluntary imposture in the world; and that they who have most imposed on mankind, have been happy in a certain faculty of imposing first upon themselves; by which they VOL. 11. B have a kind of salvo for their consciences, and are so much the more successful, as they can act their part more naturally, and to the life.-Shaftesbury's Moralists, p. 211. MR. J. Beal, in a letter to Mr. Boyle, dated Yeovill, October 12, 1670, informs him, that when he was a scholar at Eton, the town was infected with the plague, so that the scholars fled away. Upon this occasion, as his father was deceased, his mother at a great distance, and his other relations at court, and he had no address to any other person, the house in which he abode being surrounded by the plague, even at the next doors; the nature and fame of the disease begat in him a great horror. "In this distress," continues he, "I had an impressive dream, consisting of very many particulars. I told it to all the family, and within three days we found every circumstance true, though very strange and seeming casual. I foretold who were sent for me, what coloured horses, and very sore accidents which fell on |