Erich Fromm Quotes

I never remember my dreams.

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

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

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.

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 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.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.

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

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

People are not stupid.

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

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

Are you in my dream too?

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

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

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

We control the content of our dreams.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.