Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

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.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

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

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

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

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

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

Dreams aren't memories," he says.

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

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.