Romeo and Juliet

What does Mercurio mean when he replies, "True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain."

Act 1 scene 4

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He says that dreams are the stuff of mere fantasy and have no substance to them. Brains that do not think much are closely related to dreams.

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