Bell Hooks Quotes

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.

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

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

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.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

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

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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?

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

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

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.