The World’s View on Dreams

Some people have some fantastic things to say about dreams and the dream-world. Here are just a few I have found:

“Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” Astrid Alauda

“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.” Dom Helder Camara

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” Elias Canetti

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” Goethe

“Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud.” Grey Livingston

“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.”H.F. Hedge

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” Marian Wright Edelman

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” Marsha Norman

“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” Virginia Woolf

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” William Dement

“Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” X Files

“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.” Zadok Rabinowitz

What do dreams mean to you?

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Published:: 21 October 2007 / 9:02 pm

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Alabaster Crippens 10.21.07 / 11pm

I’m totally with William Dement, and a little with the X files (and plenty of bits and pieces with the other stuff there too, but I’ll steer clear for now).
For me, I guess that dreams are my adventures, my wild time, my weird time. It vents the insanity that builds up in me, but it also lets me see new angles of myself. Sometimes I don’t like it, sometimes I’m terrified, but it’s all learning.
Dreams are also much more cool than television, though they always end on the most frustrating cliffhangers.

MegZaZ 10.23.07 / 10pm

Yeah I definately agree. I write a lot of my dreams here on wordpress and notice that a lot of my dreams end when you think there should be more.
They are definately weird and wonderful and I totally enjoy exploring them.

Alabaster Crippens 10.24.07 / 5pm

I think it’s something to do with only remembering the one you’re having as you wake up, so you only get the ones that don’t ‘resolve’. I wonder if that means you only get the ones that are ‘unhealthy’ and need more work to solve (hence your conscience mind gets a chance to work out what it’s all about).
Possibly.

Anyway, my favourite dreams are the ones that get continued. I like it when I wake up, remember my dream, try and get back to it, but end up somewhere totally different, only much more lucid. It never lasts long, but it sure is fun.

Then occasionally I’ve had dreams revisited a night or two (or more) later. That’s always strange. Dream deja vu…plus a spooky sense of feeling at home only not.

Uncanny anyone?

MegZaZ 10.24.07 / 9pm

Yeah that is definately strange.

I find that I can sometimes remember dreams from earlier on in the night when I wake up. Only occassionally… you usually wake up, at least partially, in between dreams anyway so many dreams will be interrupted I think.

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