3163. This morning I spoke with those again who in the night, as they say, had spoken as if with me, but I was prompted to say that I had been asleep, so they [must have spoken] with others. Now I also realize that they do have a general perception, not a vague one, but if I may say, a lucid one of everything that comes forth in my thought, so that by them, better than by others, man can be led. For just as the general states of thought are varied, so also are those of the particulars, because these go back to the general, as they also follow from the general, which is obvious from many things.