“Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?”
“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”
“[I]t seems to be just as foolish to say, 'I imagine, in order to understand more clearly what I am,' as to say, 'I am now clearly awake and I see something true, but because I do not yet see it clearly enough I shall fall asleep so that my dreams will represent it to me more truly and clearly.”
“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”