Rudolf Steiner Quotes

We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

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

To sleep perchance to dream

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.

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

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.