Christopher Nolan Quotes

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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 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.

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.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

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

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.

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'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

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

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

I'm one of those people who keep a dream journal.

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.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

"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."

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

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.

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

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

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.