Stephen LaBerge Quotes

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

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

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

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

Life is a state of consciousness.

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

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.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.