Giorgio de Chirico Quotes

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

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

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

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

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

I never remember my dreams.

Are you in my dream too?

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

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.