Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

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

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

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

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

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

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

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.

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

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.

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

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

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.

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.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

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

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

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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