Carl Jung Quotes

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

After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

I never remember my dreams.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

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.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

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

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

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

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.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

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

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

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.