Lucid Dreaming Quotes

• 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.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Self Confidence, Creative

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

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Talking, Evolution

  "The Edge of Dreaming". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Night, Reality

  "Turning vivid dreams into reality" by Donna Tapellini, www.wired.com. March 19, 2001.

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Inspirational Harry Potter, Dementors

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• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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• 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.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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

  Marsha Norman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Success Comes in Cans: Learning Lessons for Life". Book by Kriss Akabusi and Tricia Hartley, 2006.

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

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Soul, Looks

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Dream, Sleep

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Deliverance, Prison

  Journal Intime 3 December (1872)

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• 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.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Real, Law

  "Dreams - the lucid experience". "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. November 2, 2014.

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• 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.

  Zeena Schreck

  Dream, Art, Unique

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

  Gao Xingjian

  Dream, Real, Self

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• 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.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Essentials

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Real, Vision

  Twitter post from May 15, 2010

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Dream, Morning

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Judgment, Awake

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.39, Open Road Media

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspiring, Dream, Real

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• 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.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Dream, Night

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Diary entry, October 5, 1962.

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• 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.

  Vivian Mercier

  Girl, Dream, Sex

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• 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.

  Plutarch

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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