Lucid Dreaming Quotes

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

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

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

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 today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

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

FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an old grey geezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down A dip my old cold toes in.

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.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

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.

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

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.

The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.

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.