Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
~H.F. Hedge

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
~X-Files

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~EliasCanetti

Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.
~Unknown

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
~ The Talmud

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
~Marsha Norman

A dream has power to poison sleep.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
~William Dement

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
~Edgar Cayce

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
~Rene Descartes

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
~Henri Amiel

There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.
~Stoddard King, Jr.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
~E.M. Cioran

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
~Evelyn Waugh

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
~Gail Godwin

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
~Paracelsus

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
~Wordsworth

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
~Vivian Mercer

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
~Bill Watterson

Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.
~Marc Ian Barasch

In a dream you are never eighty.
~Anne Sexton

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
~Steven Kloves

I'll take the dream I had last night, And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away, When I'm an old grey greezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down And dip my old cold toes in.
~Shel Silverstein

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
~Louis de Bernières