sleeping mind Quotes

Dreams aren't memories," he says.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.