Despite the fact that this might be valid, I should all things considered here consider that I am a human, and that, thus, I am in the propensity for dozing, and speaking to myself in dreams those same things I enumerated, or even some of the time others less plausible, which the deluded believe are displayed to them in their waking minutes. How regularly have I imagined that I was in these recognizable conditions, that I was clothed, and filled this place by the fire, when I was lying stripped in bed? At present, be that as it may, I absolutely look upon this paper with eyes wide alert; the head which I now move is not snoozing; I amplify this hand intentionally and with express reason, and I see it; the events in rest are not all that particular as this. In any case, I daren't overlook that, at different circumstances I have been tricked in rest by comparable figments; and, mindfully considering those cases, I see so obviously that there exist no specific checks by which the condition of waking can ever be recognized from rest, that I feel incredibly shocked; and in wonder I nearly induce myself that I am presently imagining.

Give to us a chance for assumption, then, that we are envisioning, and that every one of these particulars—to be specific, the opening of the eyes, the movement of the head, the forward putting of the hands—are simply figments; and even that we truly have neither a whole body nor hands, for example, we see. By and by it must be conceded at any rate that the articles which appear to us in rest are, so to speak, painted portrayals which couldn't have been framed unless in the resemblance of substances; and, in this manner, that those general items, at all occasions, to be specific, eyes, a head, hands, and a whole body, are not just fanciful, but rather truly existent. For, in truth, painters themselves, notwithstanding when they study to speak to sirens and satyrs by structures the most incredible and uncommon, can't give to them natures totally new, however can just make a specific variety of the individuals from various creatures; or on the off chance that they opportunity to envision something so novel that nothing at all comparative has ever been seen sometime recently, and, for example, is, along these lines, simply invented and completely false, it is at any rate sure that the shades of which this is made are genuine. What's more, on a similar standard, in spite of the fact that these general articles, viz. a body, eyes, a head, hands, and so forth, be fanciful, we are by the by completely required to concede the truth at any rate of some different questions still more basic and all inclusive than these, of which, similarly as of certain genuine hues, every one of those pictures of things, regardless of whether genuine and genuine, or false and fabulous, that are found in our awareness, are framed.