Joseph Campbell Quotes

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am persuaded that techniques of analyzing fantasy are relevant to folklore data.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

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

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

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

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

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

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

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.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.