Albert Hofmann Quotes

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

I think reality is over-rated

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.