Sleep Psychology Quotes

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

Mind over mattress.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?