Know, may God help you, that man has two states, a state called sleep and a state called wakefulness. In both cases, God has given him a perception by which he perceives things. These perceptions in wakefulness are called senses, and in sleep they are called combined senses. Everything you see while awake is called vision, and everything you see while awake is called a sense. Sleep is called short vision, and everything that a person perceives in sleep is what the imagination has detected in the state of wakefulness from the senses, and it is of two types: either what he perceived its form through the senses, or what he perceived parts of his form that he perceived in sleep through the senses. This is necessary, for it lacks something in the perception of the senses. In the origin of his creation, he did not perceive in wakefulness that matter which lost the sensory meaning with which he perceived it in the origin of his creation, so he never perceives it in sleep. The original is