Homer Quotes

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much about the Freudian theory of dreams; it's probably more interesting than your average hippie dream dictionary, but it's got to be a lot deeper than that. It can't all be about sex all the time, so I don't know if Freud is right either.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

I had a dream that she put her foot through my belly button and I was playing this little piggy went to the market just with her toes, just her foot was sticking out of my belly button and it was completely normal!

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

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

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.