Interpretation Of Dreams Quotes

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.