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

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.

Control yourself, not your dreams.

I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.