Quotes About Dreams

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from

dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?

The average person remembers a dream only once or twice a week. Given the fact that we all dream every night, that leaves at least ninety-five percent of most dreams forgotten

MNEMONIC INDUCTION OF LUCID DREAMS EXERCISE 1   Set up dream recall. At bedtime, set your mind to awaken from and to remember dreams. When you awaken from a dream, recall it as completely as you can. 2   Focus your intent. While returning to sleep, concentrate single-mindedly on your intention to remember to recognize that you are dreaming. Tell yourself, "next time I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming," repeatedly, like a mantra.

lucid dreams occur "almost exclusively" during the early morning hours.

A period of wakefulness interrupting the normal course of sleep increases the likelihood of lucidity. In fact, the "morning nap" or "sleep interruption" technique, refined through several experiments conducted by the Lucidity Institute, is an extremely powerful method of stimulating lucid dreams. The technique simply requires you to wake from sleep one hour earlier than usual, stay awake for thirty to sixty minutes, then go back to sleep.

Fear is your worst enemy in dreams; if you allow it to persist, it will grow stronger and your self confidence as well as your lucidity will grow correspondingly weaker.

Escaping from a nightmare by awakening only suppresses your conscious awareness of the anxiety-provoking imagery.

If, on the other hand, you choose to stay in the nightmare rather than waking from it, you can resolve the conflict in a way that brings you increased self-confidence and improved mental health. Then, when you wake up, you will feel that you have freed some extra energy with which to begin your day with new confidence.

To encourage a good dialogue, it is best to treat dream figures as equals.

We can carry not only knowledge but also moods from the lucid dream state to the waking state.

This carry-over of positive feeling into the waking state is an important aspect of lucid dreaming. dreams, remembered or not, often color our mood upon awakening, sometimes for a good part of a day.

We live better lives when we learn from our dreams.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

Where do you get dreams like this?

Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood .

To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

Start with big dreams and make life worth living.

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the abundance that lies in store for you.

Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.