2493. The same thing happens with other animals of this kind that appear to spirits and are portrayed by them in human sleep. For they are desires and feelings that are thus portrayed in the world of spirits when angels are speaking among themselves about such things.* For the angels' conversations thus fall into symbolic forms in the world of spirits, but in keeping with the natural character (or the shapes) of those spirits who are below them, or into whom they fall, who suppose they do this on their own; so in other cases. * This half of paragraph 2493 is emphasized marginally by the notation obs. obs., meaning "observe well."