Aristotle's treatise analyzing dreams as residues of sense-impressions — the movements persisting in sense organs after waking experience continue to produce appearances during sleep.
Dreams are not communications from gods but natural phenomena — after-images of waking perception persisting in the sense organs. The first naturalistic account of dreaming in Western philosophy.
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