Distortion Quote by Erich Fromm

Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the consciousmind. In…

— Jeremy Campbell

From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions to decipher.…

— Erich Fromm

“The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, ‘All that we see or seem…

— Stephen King

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

I believe that the dreams are the only lies that can be realized

— Ritu Ghatourey

Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

— Mason Cooley

[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

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

A dream is unrehearsed.

— Yehudi Menuhin

But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive…

— Rene Descartes

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and…

— Stephen King

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

— Jane Roberts