Recurring Dreams Quotes

• We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Parent, Use

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• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

  Brian De Palma

  Girl, Dream, Strong

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• I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.

  Cristin Milioti

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  "Once Star Cristin Milioti Gets Into the Sister Act in Sleepwalk With Me". Interview with Iris Wiener, www.theatermania.com. August 24, 2012.

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• A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Attention, Want

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

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• The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

  David Small

  Dream, Odd Things, Matter

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• For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.

  Rolf Potts

  Dream, Fashion, Land

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a recurring dream. It's mostly that. That desire to be as free as the birds, to be unhindered. I started off as - and am still - a free solo climber. So being in the air is a huge fear of mine. So there's a combination of going toward my fear as well as being fascinated with the air.

  Dean Potter

  Dream, Thinking, Air

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Character, Dark

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• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

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• I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

  Dan Fogler

  Dream, Growing Up, Princess

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• I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

  Alastair Campbell

  Dream, Months, Killing Each Other

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

  Felicia Day

  Dream, Hate, Anxious

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Doors, Dwelling

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision.

  Ben Lerner

  Dream, Eye, Firefly

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, People, Waiting

  "Taylor Swift: Bomb-Shell in Blue Jeans". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Country, Dream, New York

  Off the Page with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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