In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?.

Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.

Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.