Dream Clarity Quotes

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.

In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a special gift. And without this gift, you could study and study, but you'd never really become an effective dream teller.