Awake Quote by Plato

If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?

— Karl Pilkington

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since…

— Rene Descartes

I would always want to believe that while I'm awake at night thinking of u, u are sound asleep dreaming about me and u

— Anonymous

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

— Aristotle

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

— Ruth Rendell

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know…

— Eckhart Tolle

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

— Jonathan Gottschall

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

— Novalis

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

— Nancy Friday

Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth…

— Rumi