Sigmund Freud Quotes

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

I never remember my dreams.

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

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

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

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

We control the content of our dreams.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

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 are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

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

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.