An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

Even a dream is built from real stuff, the way a painter’s strangest creature is still made of real colors. Shapes, sizes, numbers and time seem to survive the dream test. Asleep or awake, 2 and 3 still make 5, and a square still has 4 sides.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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