John Maeda Quotes

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

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

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

[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.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

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