Plato Quotes

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

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.

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

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

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.

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

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Are you in my dream too?

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 don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.

Is a dream reality till you wake up?

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

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.

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

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.

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

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.