Top 100 Dream Awake Quotes

#1. She closes her eyes but can't fall to sleep, and so instead she conjures up again the substance of the dream ... Awake it doesn't take, though; it feels like someone else's life and she like a voyeur, watching from the outside.

Paul Murray

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#2. Live the dream awake.

Tia Walker

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#3. The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

Alberto Villoldo

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#4. When you make a commitment to live a life of bliss, everyday is an opportunity to live the dream awake.

Tia Walker

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#5. Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

Patricia A. McKillip

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#6. Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.

Ron Smothermon

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#7. To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.

Eckhart Tolle

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#8. I was right. You were asleep but you were dreamin'. You dream in black and white, babe. I gave you color. Now, you're awake."
-Kane "Tack" Allen

Kristen Ashley

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#9. I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping ...

Anne Tyler

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#10. When you can't sleep, it's because you're awake in someone else's dream.

Damon Suede

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#11. A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

Lorraine Toussaint

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#12. He was awake; probably he had had the same dream as she. They had the same starry stuff in their veins, after all.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#13. Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

John Keats

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#14. Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#15. When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

Richard Bach

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#16. Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams.

Gregory Maguire

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#17. I hardly ever dream, which is probably a reflection of the fact that I live my life fully and consciously. I solve my problems while awake and, as a result, spend my sleeping hours resting, not receiving inane messages.

Iris Owens

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#18. Life is good for dreamers, if you are awake you're missing on some great fun

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#19. We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams ... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

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#20. Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.

Sachin Tendulkar

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#21. I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I am lost in the darkness of a downcast heart. Dream or reality. Let it be decided tonight.

Neil Gaiman

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#22. You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Haruki Murakami

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#23. Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#24. My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Antonio Machado

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#25. Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake.

K. Ford K.

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#26. I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake
whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#27. Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.

Rene Descartes

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#28. We are slumberous poppies,
Lords of Lethe downs,
Some awake and some asleep,
Sleeping in our crowns.
What perchance our dreams may know,
Let our serious may know.

Leigh Hunt

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#29. Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Soren Kierkegaard

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#30. The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake ...

Haruki Murakami

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#31. At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Robert Browning

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#32. I meditate all the time. You know, I don't sleep much - it's a known fact that sleep is required more for the brain than the body because the brain needs sleep to dream. But I dream all the time. I dream when I'm awake, when I create work, with my eyes open. So who needs sleep?

Ohad Naharin

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#33. Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.

Michael Faudet

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#34. The true poet dreams being awake.

Charles Lamb

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#35. Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#36. The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

Jack Kerouac

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#37. If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

Fernando Pessoa

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#38. Be awake and arise to fulfill your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#39. Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.

Steven Hall

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#40. Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Theocritus

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#41. Life is a dream. I awake it is a reality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#42. A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

Charles Fleischer

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#43. Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#44. That's not the question you should be asking, though, if this is a dream. The question you should be asking is what you're going to do now? Because you're awake?

T.J. Klune

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#45. I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Alan Turing

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#46. Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

Thomas Hobbes

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#47. Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#48. I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.

Milorad Pavic

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#49. Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

Rumi

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#50. I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Cary Elwes

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#51. Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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#52. This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#53. Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

Ze Frank

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#54. The young need their sleep and their dreams; only we who are old dream best when we are awake.

Erik Christian Haugaard

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#55. We've heard that you don't need a near-death experience to see Guardians. Just be more wide awake when you dream.

Stefanie Samek

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#56. Life itself is a dream. When we die, we awake.

Fatima

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#57. I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and living when I dream, or if dreaming and living are for me intersected, intermingled things that together form my conscious self.

Fernando Pessoa

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#58. I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

Thomas Browne

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#59. The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

Bertrand Russell

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#60. Up! you bag of bones!"
"Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream ...
You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!!
"She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. "Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??

Alexandra Bracken

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#61. Dream while you are awake; act while you are asleep.

Debasish Mridha

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#62. Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

Loren Eiseley

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#63. You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I'm awake and dream at night of my hands on your body. And it sure as hell won't erase that I'm terrified by how much I like you.

Katie McGarry

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#64. Everything feels right with the world ...
... and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.

Neal Shusterman

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#65. In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

Rajneesh

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#66. It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Roger Babson

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#67. Dream of me, he said.
Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.

Erin McCahan

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#68. Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

Chris Guillebeau

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#69. As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.

Carolyn Elliott

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#70. The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

Mardy Grothe

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#71. What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.

Miguel Ruiz

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#72. My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

Adyashanti

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#73. If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?

Karl Pilkington

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#74. For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Haruki Murakami

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#75. Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

Wallace Stegner

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#76. With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for ... to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don't want to awake from.

Sawm Rad

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#77. Even if it kills me, staying awake and seeing you ... is better than any dream.

Josephine Angelini

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#78. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.

C.S. Lewis

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#79. Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.

Jared Leto

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#80. A dream isn't worth the sleep, unless you are wide awake when dreaming it.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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#81. If, when we are asleep, we can dream of sleeping, can we then, when awake, awaken within a more lucid reality?

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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#82. There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.

Frederick Lenz

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#83. In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

Stephen LaBerge

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#84. And, in the end, we lie awake And we dream of making our escape.

Rick Yancey

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#85. the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
in me.

i am waiting
for him.

Sanober Khan

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#86. Your dream will keep you awake until you take a grip.

Euginia Herlihy

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#87. You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

Ian Fleming

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#88. Yes," I answered. But I stayed awake for the rest of that long, dark night, wondering what such a dream could possibly mean.

Augusta Trobaugh

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#89. I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

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#90. I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

Emily Giffin

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#91. Reading a good book is like being able to dream while you're awake. The best part is knowing you can re-enter that dream, whenever you wish.

J.Z. Bingham

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#92. I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

David Brainerd

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#93. I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Stan Laurel

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#94. One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.

Donna Levin

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#95. 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.

Stephen LaBerge

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#96. Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

Walt Disney

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#97. It's 3:17 AM. I'm back. I'm awake and writing again. I just had a dream that I was lying in my bed and Kara walked into my room. She was wearing a bikini. I'm never going to sleep ever again.

Charlie Wood

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#98. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

Andre Agassi

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#99. The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

Alex G. Zarate

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#100. Dreaming is good - especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don't act on them.

Debasish Mridha

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