Max Richter Quotes

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.

Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order.

The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.

It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

My dreams tend to be like dog dreams. I'm usually so tired that I hardly dream at all. In a way, I do think that the zone one performs in - without getting too ooga-booga about it - it's like that moment when you wake up in the morning and you're emerging from a dream state but you're not quite up. Where are you? Can you hear the birds? Or is that the traffic? It's that zone in which I perform. It’s like one foot in reality and one foot in a dream state. I spend most of my life in that state!

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.