David Mitchell Quotes

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

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.

Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Dreams are not theirs to take!

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

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

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

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.