Henry Reed Quotes

For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

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

In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.

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.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

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

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

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

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

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

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.