Lewis Carroll Quotes

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Is a dream reality till you wake up?

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.

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.

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

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

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

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

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

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.

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

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

"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."

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

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.