Ray Charles Quotes

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

I never remember my dreams.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

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

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

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

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

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

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 didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

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

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

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

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

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

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