Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I never remember my dreams.

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.

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

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

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.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

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.

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

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.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.