Christopher Nolan Quotes

I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

When you sleep, you don't control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

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

In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

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.

Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

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.

I never remember my dreams.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We control the content of our dreams.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

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

Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

Adjust my dreams for me.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.