Ray Kurzweil Quotes

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

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.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

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

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

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

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.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

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

We control the content of our dreams.

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.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.