Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. — Jane Roberts
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. — Denis Waitley
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. — Toni Cade Bambara
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now. — Emmitt Smith
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. — Gail Godwin
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. — Denis Waitley
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday. — Sigmund Freud
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. — Black Elk
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. — Carl Jung
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. — Howard Thurman
Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Short Dream Interpretation Quotes
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. — Jane Roberts
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. — Paracelsus
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. — Abdul Kalam
Dreaming men are haunted men. — Stephen Vincent Benet
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self. — Gao Xingjian
Play like dreams serves the function of self realization. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. — Edgar Cayce
Dreams are necessary to life. — Anais Nin
We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream Interpretation Image Quotes
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
I Have A Dream Quotes
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. — Mike Tyson
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind. — Rajiv Gandhi
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. — Hugh Hefner
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it. — Yo Gotti
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. — Yoko Ono
What's Your Dream Quotes
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do. — Martin Garrix
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? — Jim Carrey
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me. — Nick Woodman
Don’t let anyone step on your dreams. Do your best to protect what’s important to you! — Russell Brunson
Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another. — Zosia Mamet
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. — Jacques Pepin
You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to, its the cheapest thing you'll ever do. — Jared Leto
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there. — Louis Armstrong
What Is Your Dream Quotes
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. — Oprah Winfrey
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. — T. D. Jakes
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation. — Rudy Ruettiger
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' — Barbara Billingsley
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. — Nicholas Sparks
I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL. — Jocko Willink
The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do — T. D. Jakes
If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill
Interpretation Of Dreams Quotes
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. — Slavoj Žižek
My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them. — Tom of Finland
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life. — Sigmund Freud
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. — Erich Fromm
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. — Erich Fromm
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA. — Ron Wyden
To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people. — Cesar Luis Menotti
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain. — Jonathan Swift
Weird Dream Quotes
I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog. — Alicia Silverstone
I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time. — Jennifer Lynch
It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad. — Todd Strasser
I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams. — Jayma Mays
I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food. — Rick Riordan
I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well. — Gene Simmons
[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever. — James A. Garfield
I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.' — Chloe Sevigny
Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog. — Sammy Hagar
Science fiction fans are awesome, they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life. — Katee Sackhoff
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward
Strange Dreams Quotes
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — Jack Kerouac
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. — Camille Claudel
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. — Guy de Maupassant
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles. — Richard Burton
A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years... — Shel Silverstein
Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary;
That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun;
Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases;
Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream! — Everett Ruess
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. — Mary Kay Ash
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. — Giorgio de Chirico
She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd. — Jack Johnson
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. — Douglas MacArthur
Recurring Dreams Quotes
I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie. — Cristin Milioti
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams. — Oskar Kokoschka
I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision. — Ben Lerner
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me! — Taylor Swift
We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity. — Frederick Lenz
One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling. — Jane Hirshfield
The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise. — David Small
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time. — Brian De Palma
I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing. — Alastair Campbell
I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places. — Felicia Day
Dreams And Nightmares Quotes
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? — John Lennon
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. — Oscar Wilde
O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams. — William Shakespeare
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. — William S. Burroughs
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares. — Susan Sontag
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving. — Marlon Brando
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. — John C. Maxwell
Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams. — Nancy Reagan
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. — Eldridge Cleaver
May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary. — Donald Glover
The interpretation of dreams is a great art. — Paracelsus
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. — Kahlil Gibran
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. — Arthur Machen
When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world. — Dave McKean
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand. — Paulo Coelho
Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber. — Jonathan Carroll
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions to decipher. And it is really in knowing when one must prefer the one or the other approach, or a combination of the two, that remains one of the important elements of the art of dream interpretation. — Erich Fromm
By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her. — J. K. Rowling
Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword. — E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. — Susan Sontag
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. — Lou Andreas-Salomé
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? — Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. — Judy Collins
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. — Henry Reed
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply. — Henry Reed
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life. — Henry Reed
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. — Elie Wiesel
I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing. — Lucy Jane Bledsoe
I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways. — Sarnath Banerjee
For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association. — Erich Fromm
[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes. — Erich Fromm
Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. — Rodger Kamenetz
The fellow who wrote the post about sharing a bear suit with a girl at a party saw my illustration and emailed me, which was kind of thrilling. He sent a photo taken on the night, and that was a dream-like experience... but even though I've seen the "real" bear suit, my image of it feels real to me, and his photo the interpretation. — Sophie Blackall
Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting. — Eugene Gendlin
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream. — Carl Jung
I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts. — Carl Jung
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by our memories, our dreams and hopes, the stories and connections that our brains make as we navigate a universe of fantasy, or unreality, or surreality. I'm keen to explore this very human experience, how our minds create our own realities, a blend of fact and interpretation of fact. — Dave McKean
When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well. — Zhuangzi
Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself. — Eckhart Tolle
That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day's imagery. — Hilda Doolittle
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