Arthur Machen Quotes

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a special gift. And without this gift, you could study and study, but you'd never really become an effective dream teller.

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.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

I just wrote out a long description of my best dream and realised telling people your dreams just can't be allowed, it's too boring.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

Nobody can be a clairvoyant.

I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

I do dream. I mean, I must every night, right? But I only remember a couple a year.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.