Curma then, in the vision, went to Paradise, where he was told to go and be baptised.
He said it had been done already, and was answered, "Go and be truly baptised, for _that_ thou didst but see in vision".

So Augustine christened him, and later, hearing of the trance, asked him about it, when he repeated the tale already familiar to his neighbours.
Augustine thinks it a mere dream, and apparently regards the death of Curma the smith as a casual coincidence.

Un esprit fort, le Saint Augustin! "If the dead could come in dreams," he says, "my pious mother would no night fail to visit me.

Far be the thought that she should, by a happier life, have been made so cruel that, when aught vexes my heart, she should not even console in a dream the son whom she loved with an only love." Not only things once probably known, yet forgotten, but knowledge never _consciously_ thought out, may be revealed in a dramatic dream, apparently through the lips of the dead or the never existent.

The books of psychology are rich in examples of problems worked out, or music or poetry composed in sleep.