Erich Fromm Quotes

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

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.

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

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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?'

I never remember my dreams.

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.

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

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.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

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.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

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

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.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

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.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.

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.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

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

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.