76 Lucid Dreaming Quotes
Following is our list of lucid dreaming quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about sleep and dream.
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Famous Lucid Dreaming Quotes
Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality. — Stephen LaBerge
The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic. — Paul Davies
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. — Lorenz Hart
I have absurdly vivid dreams. — Erin Morgenstern
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem
Live your dream and never wake up — Liam Payne
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. — Richelle Mead
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
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? — Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. — Black Elk
Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. — Matthew Walker
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives — William C. Dement
Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams. — Marcus Aurelius
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
I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep. — Conor McGregor
Short Lucid Dreaming Quotes
- life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream — Alfred De Musset
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. — Henry David Thoreau
- The madman is a dreamer awake — Sigmund Freud
- When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — P.D. Ouspensky
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe
- Play like dreams serves the function of self realization. — Donald Woods Winnicott
- Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
- We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self. — Gao Xingjian
- True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. — Oskar Kokoschka
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Vivid Dreams Quotes
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it. — Larry Page
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 have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity. — Bryce Dallas Howard
If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams. — Stephen LaBerge
I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD. — Will Packer
Where there is life, there is hope. — Alyson Noel
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. — Michael J. Fox
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps. — E. T. A. Hoffmann
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter? — Rene Descartes
Sleep And Dream Quotes
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. — Ibn Arabi
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Larry Ferguson
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self — Adi Shankara
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. — Abdul Kalam
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. — James Allen
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. — Fernando Pessoa
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. — Conor Oberst
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come. — William Shakespeare
Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them. — Carmelo Anthony
People Writing About Lucid Dreaming
More Lucid Dreaming Quotes
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. — Stephen LaBerge
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery. — Stephen LaBerge
To vary your inspiration, consider varying your inputs. Turn the sound off to watch a film, listen to the same song on repeat, read only the first word of each sentence in a short story, arrange stones by size or color, learn to lucid dream. Break habits. Look for differences. Notice connections. — Rick Rubin
Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer. — Stephen LaBerge
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
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. — J. K. Rowling
Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya. — Zeena Schreck
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death. — Bernard Lazare
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. — Coleman Barks
Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION. — Kevin Nash
There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. — Stephen LaBerge
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality. — Antonin Artaud
[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions. — Paul Laffoley
As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it. — Christopher Nolan
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream. — Aristotle
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry. — Michel Leiris
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too? — Stephen LaBerge
Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it. — Juice Wrld
What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute. — Eva Rubinstein
A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible. — Max Richter
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader. — Del Howison
When I live lucidly I see that I am both mortal and immortal. The person I appear to be in time had a beginning and will come to an end. But the deep self isn't in time, just like a dreamer isn't in a dream. — Timothy Freke
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more. — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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