Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Is a dream reality till you wake up?

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.