Altered states Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all…

— Bell Hooks

Lack of sleep can lead to an increased desire for sex and substance abuse

— Ritu Ghatourey

“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

“Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of…

— Marcel Proust

“Dreams are associated with a state called REM sleep, the abbreviation standing for rapid eye movement. The REM state is strongly correlated with sexual…

— Carl Sagan

An erection is like the theory of relativity. The more you think about it. The harder it gets.

— Anonymous

“In many ways, a sleep-deprived brain acts like a brain under the influence of alcohol.”

— Penelope A. Lewis

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such…

— Napoleon Hill

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,

— Thomas Hardy

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

— Neville Goddard

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

— William S. Burroughs