Quotes About Dreams

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It's so dark, he thought, that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise . . . without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

They talked about fishing, food, winds and stonework; about growing tomatoes, keeping poultry and roasting lamb, catching crayfish and scallops; telling tales, jokes; the meaning of their stories nothing, the drift of them everything; the brittle and beautiful dream itself.

Under the influence of mercury, which he administered to himself daily as a salve for his syphilis, & laudanum, which he drank each evening in imprecisely measured amounts to enable him to sleep, because of all things, this brave man feared only his dreams, opiate-enhanced nightmares that gave him no respite & which always ended in flames from which he rose phoenix-like just before dawn each morning, to recommence building what was already ash.

He fell asleep and again dreamt of being rowed by two myrtle trees, except this time they rowed through the stars to the moon, and it was quiet, and while everything went on forever the stars were as knowable and as safe and as comforting a world as that of the rainforested rivers.

Perhaps if Tasmania had been a normal place where you had a proper job, spent hours in traffic in order to spend more hours in a normal crush of anxieties waiting to return to a normal confinement, and where no-one ever dreamt what it was like to be a seahorse, abnormal things like becoming a fish wouldn't happen to you.

Things you did,things you never did,things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

Cosas que hiciste. Cosas que nunca hiciste. Cosas que soñaste. Al cabo de un largo tiempo se juntan todas.

According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.

Humans, short- lived and locked out of the gray places for life, do not do well with uncertainty. If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so.

These days, one of them told me one freezing slow-as-Sunday night, we're all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad.

If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so.

I remembered the way Reileen Kawahara had dealt with two unfaithful minions. The animal sounds they had made came back to me in dreams for a long time afterwards. Reileen's argument, framed as she peeled an apple against the backdrop of those screams, was that since no one really dies anymore, punishment can come only through suffering. I felt my new face twitch, even now, with the memory.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Without them, our dreams may remain terra incognita. I know mine did. Using them, the light of insight is coupled with the power for expansive

To kill your dreams because they are irresponsible is to irresponsible to yourself.

possibility is far more frightening that impossibility ... If we do, in fact, have to deal with a force beyond ourselves that involves itself in our lives, then we may have to move into action on those previously impossible dreams ... we discount answered prayers ... call it coincidence ... call it luck ... call it anything but what it is -- the hand of God ... activated ... when we commit to our own soul

1. I am a channel for God's creativity, and my work comes to good. 2. My dreams come from God and God has the power to accomplish them. [...] 4. Creativity is the Creator's will for me. 5. My creativity heals myself and others. [...] 8. Through the use of my creativity, I serve God. [...] 14. As I listen to my creativity I am led to my Creator. [...] 17. I am willing to let God creative through me. 18. I am willing to be of service through my creativity.

Para ser realmente inmortal, una obra de arte debe escapar de todos los límites humanos: la lógica y el sentido común sólo interfieren. Pero una vez se han roto estas barreras, entrará en los reinos de las visiones y de los sueños de la infancia». GIORGIO DE CHIRICO

atrapados entre el sueño de la acción y el miedo al fracaso, es donde nacen los artistas sombra.

creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.

Para ser realmente inmortal, una obra de arte debe escapar de todos los límites humanos: la lógica y el sentido común sólo interfieren. Pero una vez se han roto estas barreras, entrará en los reinos de las visiones y de los sueños de la infancia».

Too intimidated to become artists themselves, very often too low in self-worth to even recognize that they have an artistic dream, these people become shadow artists instead.