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Quotes About Consciousness

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
~ Samuel Beckett
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
~ Raymond Carver, Cathedral
You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
~ Oliver Sacks
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
~ Diogenes Laertius
The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
~ Jane Roberts
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.
~ Amit Ray
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
~ Unknown
Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.
~ Will Smith
As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.
~ Christine Downing
Control yourself, not your dreams.
~ Stephen LaBerge
What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.
~ Carl Jung
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
~ Unknown
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.
~ Charles Durning
We control the content of our dreams.
~ Thom Gunn
We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.
~ Amy Hardie
It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.
~ Neil Gaiman
From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived.
~ Ufuoma Apoki
If life is a dream, better you dread the waking!
~ Unknown