Zhuangzi Quotes

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

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

I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

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

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.