For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
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For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
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