 Referring to the worry that he’s presently dreaming as exaggerated suggests that condition (i) is met – i.e., suggests that the present circumstance includes a “natural propensity” to believe he’s awake. As such, he needs only to establish condition (ii), and he’ll have a divine guarantee of being awake. Here, notice that an important theme of the above passage concerns the meditator’s faculties for correcting sensory error – a theme suggestive of condition (ii). In context, Descartes’ appeal to the continuity test is perhaps best understood in conjunction with condition (ii). As the meditator says (speaking of his apparently waking experience):