James Thomson Quotes

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

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

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

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Are you in my dream too?

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

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 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.

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

I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.

I never remember my dreams.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

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

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.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

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

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

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

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

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

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.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.