Thoughts on dreaming. Wherein the notion of the sensory, and the opinion that it is shut up from the inspection of the soul in sleep, and that spirits supply us with all our dreams are examined by Revelation and reason. Occasioned by an essay on the phoenomenon of dreaming, in a book, entitled An enquiry into the nature of the human soul [by Andrew Baxter]. Wherein the immateriality of the soul is evinced from the principles of reason and philosophy / By Tho. Branch.

  • Branch, Thomas.
Date:
1738
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Credit: Thoughts on dreaming. Wherein the notion of the sensory, and the opinion that it is shut up from the inspection of the soul in sleep, and that spirits supply us with all our dreams are examined by Revelation and reason. Occasioned by an essay on the phoenomenon of dreaming, in a book, entitled An enquiry into the nature of the human soul [by Andrew Baxter]. Wherein the immateriality of the soul is evinced from the principles of reason and philosophy / By Tho. Branch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are committed to writing; the others are rejefted and difcarded as much as may be; and then the Imagination is fent in fearch of more ; and fo on. This is certainly a work of Fatigue; perhaps Materials come in flowly^ and the Judgment deliberates long about their Propriety. But^ on the contrary, when we controul not the Ima¬ gination, but let it fly at all, and purfue its own Game, this cofts us no Pains ; many Perfons find much more in pinnion- ing it. We do not allow ourfelves time to attend its idle Flights when awake; (I fhould rather fay Refleft on, for Attention in a proper Senfe, would prevent them) but in Sleep, we can do nothing elfe in the mean time. I look on Sleep as the Province of Imagination ; here it reigns. Corporeal Objefls are fliut out and cannot approach the Soul in this State, but myriads of incorporeal Ideas, prefented by the Memory and Imagination, and principally the latter, afford it Ejcercife and Entertainment. It has a World of its own Creation and peopling to range in, and converfe with, tho’ then imprifoned in a fleeping Body. I do not apprehend it poffible to demonftrate fo fatisladorily to all