#dreamt

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone. ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#dreamt #gone #i #last #last night

But the Australians, what do the Australians do? How do they structure their landscape? For a start they postulate a primal builder, whose work they presume only to interpret: the mythical animal who was active in the “dreamtime,” that is, a primal era, beyond verification, as the name indicates. A time of sleep. The visible landscape is an effect of causes that are to be found in the dreamtime. For example, the snake that dragged itself over this plain creating these undulations, etc., etc. These.. curious Aborigines make sure their eyes are closed while events take place, which allows them to see places as records of events. But what they see is a kind of dream, and they wake into a reverie, since the real story (the snake, not the hills) happened while they were asleep. ↗

— César Aira

#australian-aboriginal #dreamtime #dreams

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#acted #awoke #behold #dreamt #i

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#around #being #dreamt #editors #finished

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#dalai lama #dream #dreamt #i #lama

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#came #could #cultivate #dreamt #england

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer! ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#always #before #do you know #doing #done

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ↗

— Zhuangzi

#around #awoke #being #butterfly #dreamed

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#am #concerned #dreamt #earth #heaven

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#business #certainly #dreamt #fame #famous