Professor Hilprecht, however, examined the two actual fragments in the Imperial Museum at Constantinople.

They lay in two distinct cases, but, when put together, fitted.

When cut asunder of old, in Babylon, the white vein of the stone showed on one fragment, the grey surface on the other.
Professor Romaine Newbold, who publishes this dream, explains that the professor had unconsciously reasoned out his facts, the difference of colour in the two pieces of agate disappearing in the dream.

The professor had heard from Dr.Peters of the expedition, that a room had been discovered with fragments of a wooden box and chips of agate and lapis lazuli.

The sleeping mind "combined its information," reasoned rightly from it, and threw its own conclusions into a dramatic form, receiving the information from the lips of a priest of Nippur.
Probably we do a good deal of reasoning in sleep.