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On the Senses and Their Objects

work by Aristotle

Also known as: “Parva naturalia”

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In dream: Dreams as extensions of the waking state
…his work Parva naturalia (On the Senses and Their Objects), the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 bce), despite the practice of divination and incubation among his contemporaries, attributed dreams to sensory impressions from “external objects…pauses within the body…eddies…of sensory movement often remaining like they were when they first started, but…
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