Building blocks Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

— Sigmund Freud

[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

“It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path…

— Pablo Picasso

“Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

“Recall our own recent, immediate experiences. Since dreams are often initiated by something that happened only recently, we must ask about yesterday's residue.”

— Lawrence Kushner

Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops,…

— Robert Motherwell

“Dreams can be sources of powerful, life-transforming information if you pay attention to their meanings.”

— Nancy Wagaman

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear…

— Carl Jung

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are…

— Anonymous

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or…

— Erich Fromm

“As emotions may take apart bit by bit the rational blueprints in our imagination, dreams may expose what is veiled in the safe haven…

— Erik Pevernagie