All night Quote by Jonathan Gottschall Download Open image “The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.” — Jonathan Gottschall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare All night Brain Dream Dreams Night Sleep Stories Telling stories Up all night
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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Dreams aren't those that you have when you are asleep. Dreams are those that don't let you sleep till they are fulfilled. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story. — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
“This is the great dream of which each individual dream is a personal manifestation. Dream is ontogenetic. Myth is phylogenetic. "Dreams and especially myths… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
Dream are not those which we see while sleeping. Dream are those which can't let us sleep. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty -… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels,… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. — Bob Phillips Copy Share Image
Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and… — Maurice de Saxe Copy Share Image
Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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I memorize my lines and I show up. I think it's just instinctual, and sometimes it's wrong and the director says, "No, do it… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding… — Sean Patrick Thomas Copy Share Image