Social norms Quote by Andrea Rock

I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making.…

— Chloe Benjamin

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

— Andrew Weil

“Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished: the brain then ‘freewheels’, synapses firing more…

— James David Lewis-Williams

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And…

— Jonathan Swift

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily…

— Erich Fromm

I believe dreams connect us to our ancestors and it is through creativity that we can tap into this in the conscious state. Creativity…

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake

— Leonardo Da Vinci

“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

— Ruth Rendell

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

— Carl Jung

Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking…

— William C. Dement

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as…

— Annie Besant