#phil

If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#poetry #wisdom #dreams

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#spirituality #dreams

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams. ↗

— Shane Koyczan

#philosophy #dreams

The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#valis #dreams

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#free-will #god #philosophy #dreams

And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King. ↗

— Julie Otsuka

#thought-provoking #dreams

Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you’re awake. ↗

— R.M. ArceJaeger

#dreams

The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun." "They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#humor #philisophical #dreams

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil. ↗

— Guy Debord

#philosophie #philosophy #rêve #sleep #dreams

He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried. ↗

— Edward Lewis Wallant

#life #philosophy #religion #spiritual #dreams