_dreams_ there is commonly _no coherence_, and when there is, it is by chance, which must needs proceed from this, that the _brain_ in dreams is _not restored_ to its motion in every part alike; whereby it cometh to pass, that our thoughts appear like the stars between the flying clouds, not in the order which a man would choose to observe them, but as the uncertain flight of broken clouds permits. [Sidenote: Fiction defined.] 4. As when the _water_, or any liquid thing moved at once by _divers_ movents, receiveth _one_ motion compounded of them all; so also the _brain_ or spirit therein, having been stirred by _divers_ objects, composeth an imagination of _divers_ conceptions that appeared single to the sense. As for example, the sense sheweth at one time the figure of a _mountain_, and at another time the colour of _gold_; but the imagination afterwards hath them both at once in a _golden mountain_. From the same cause it is, there appear unto us _castles_ in the _air_, _chimeras_, and other monsters which are _not_ in _rerum natura_, _but_ have been conceived by the sense in pieces at several times. And this composition is that which we commonly call _fiction_ of the mind. [Sidenote: Phantasms defined.] 5. There is yet another kind of imagination, which for _clearness contendeth_ with _sense_, as well as a _dream_; and that is, when the _action_ of sense hath been _long_ or _vehement_: and the experience thereof is more frequent in the sense of seeing, than the rest. An example whereof is, the _image_ remaining before the _eye_ after looking upon the _sun_. Also, those little images that appear before the eyes in the _dark_ (whereof I think every man hath experience, but they most of all, who are _timorous_ or superstitious) are examples of the same. And these, for distinction-sake, may be called _phantasms_. [Sidenote: Remembrance defined.] 6. By the _senses_, which are numbered according to the _organs_ to be _five_, we take notice (as hath been said already) of the objects _without_ us; and that _notice_ is our _conception_ thereof: but we take _notice_ also some way or other _of our conceptions_: for when the conception of the same thing cometh _again_, we take notice that it is _again_; that is to say, that we have had the same conception _before_; which is as much as to imagine a thing _past_; which is impossible to the _sense_, which is only of things _present_. This therefore may be accounted a _sixth sense_, but _internal_, (not _external_, as the rest) and is commonly called _remembrance_. [Sidenote: Wherein remembrance consisteth.]