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  • It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

  • Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

    Dream   Art   Waking Life  
  • Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.

    "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
  • God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

  • If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

    Dream   Art   Waking Life  
  • I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

    Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.186, Routledge
  • Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

  • What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!

    Jobs   Team   Two Sides  
    "Fictional character: Alex Jones". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

    FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Oct 24, 2015
  • But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

    Dream   Self   Safety  
    Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.87, Anchor
  • There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

    Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books
  • I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

    Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press
  • It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

    Real   Thinking   Two  
  • He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

    Life   Memorable   Feet  
    William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Penguin
  • What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

    Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”
  • I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

    Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.7, Courier Corporation
  • I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  • We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

    Life   Sleep   Water  
    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.29, Canongate Books
  • Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

    Iain Banks (1986). “The bridge”
  • Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
  • In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

  • The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

    Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.218, Penguin
  • Know what you're talking about.

    George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
  • Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

    "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.
  • Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

    Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
  • Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

    Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
  • I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

    "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.
  • We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

    Life   Dream   Real  
  • What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

    Real   People   Waking  
    "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.
  • To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

    Dream   Real   Home  
    "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.
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