Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.”

— Andrew Barger

“But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality, a foreglimpse…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from…

— Charles Dickens

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when…

— Carl Jung

“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear…

— Gene Wolfe

“In sleep I visit the vast unknown to dream wondrous possibilities into existence.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in…

— Robin Hobb

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

— Carl Jung

“‎Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, a boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence. Sleep hath its own world, and…

— George Gordon Byron

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos…

— Christopher Morley

“A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep…

— Robin Hobb

“Sometimes one awakes with the knowledge that unrecallable dreams have been lining your sleep, and though you feel rested, it is the rest of…

— Amy Rachel Peterson