Absence Quote by Stephen LaBerge

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience.…

— Stephen LaBerge

Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking…

— William C. Dement

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there…

— Stephen King

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

— Richelle Mead

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

— Oliver Sacks

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a…

— David Eagleman

Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an…

— Stephen LaBerge

Dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up.

— Varsha Sharma

“When we dream, we feel we are experiencing reality. What separates our waking feelings from our dream feelings?" "When I consider this carefully, I…

— Jostein Gaarder

Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving…

— Stephen LaBerge

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that…

— Thomas Hobbes

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so…

— Aleister Crowley