Quotation by

Rene Descartes

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

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Descartes is saying that when he sleeps, his dreams involve imagining bizarre or irrational things similar to what mad people think about while they are conscious. This highlights his view that the boundary between dreaming and madness can be blurred, as both involve strange, unreal experiences.

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