| Quotations
About Dreams |
| "Dreams
repair and prepare." |
| -- L.
Sarasohn |
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| "Although the events that
appear to take place in dreams are illusory, our
feelings in response to dream events are
real." |
| -- Stephen
LaBerge |
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| "Dreams are perhaps the
most highly personal expressions you have. No one
else can tell you what your dreams mean. A
therapist, if sensitive and intimately
knowledgeable about you, can make some good
guesses. But only you can supply the pertinent
associations." |
| -- Patricia L.
Garfield |
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| "You don't have to figure
out your dreams; they aren't coded messages that
need to be deciphered. Your dreams picture your
feelings. The way to use your dreams is to feel
the pictures. Some of the dream pictures will
feel good and some will feel bad. Some will be
confused and hard to feel. But all your dream
pictures are important because they are all about
you and your life; they show you how your life
feels." |
| -- Richard
Corriere |
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| "Dreams are real while
they last, can we say more of life." |
| -- Havelock
Ellis |
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| "You can practice
overcoming your own fears, inhibitions, and
phobias within your dreams. You can carry around
within yourself your own self-therapy available
to you several times each night." |
| -- Patricia L.
Garfield |
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| "Don't slay your dream
dragons; make friends with them." |
| -- Stephen
LaBerge |
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| "We know that, although
we seem to be individuals, we are actually plural
beings. Each of us has a great multitude of
distinct personalities coexisting within one
body, sharing one psyche. It is these inner
personalities that appear to us in our dreams as
persons." |
| -- Robert A.
Johnson |
|
| "Dreams are a reservoir
of knowledge and experience, yet they are often
overlooked as a vehicle for exploring
reality." |
| -- Tarthang
Tulku |
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| "The dream's fantastic
theater is the place in which the many varied
sides of the self show. All figures, events, and
even locations appearing in a dream may be
aspects of the self, exhibited in a disguised
form. And even though other people, sometimes
completely unfamiliar, appear and perform in the
dream, in the last analysis they all represent
aspects of the dreamer." |
| -- Ilan
Kutz |
|
| "A myth is a public
dream, a dream is a private myth." |
| -- Joseph
Campbell |
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| "By granting access to
the deepest levels of human experience, dreams
can contribute to our health and personal
development, as well as making us more acutely
conscious of what it means to be
alive." |
| -- Anthony
Stevens |
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| "Dreams are a dress
rehearsal for life" |
| -- Alfred
Adler |
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| "Only the dream can allow
us to experience a future alternative as if it
were real, and thereby to provide a supremely
enlightened motivation to act upon this
knowledge." |
| -- William C.
Dement |
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| "The dream is an
involuntary kind of poetry." |
| -- Jean Paul
Richter |
|
| "The repeated dream is
simply evidence that one's basic issues continue
to seethe, seeking to be recognized and resolved.
Repeated dreams may wear different costumes, but
they reenact the same basic play, which is
usually a core issue for the dreamer, or some
problem that is currently on her/his mind." |
| -- Ilan
Kutz |
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| "[Dreams] do not deceive,
they do not lie, they do not distort or
disguise... They are invariably seeking to
express something that the ego does not know and
does not understand." |
| -- Carl
Jung |
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| "Dreams
give us permission to deeply experience our
feelings by providing images and situations that
evoke these feelings. In our dreams it seems as
if the images and situations give rise to the
feelings, but, in fact, it is the feelings that
give rise to the images and situations." |
| -- L.
Sarasohn |
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