Dream Manipulation Quotes

In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.

Adjust my dreams for me.

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.

We control the content of our dreams.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

When you sleep, you don't control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

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.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

With practice, you will master your own dreams.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.