Top 59 Dreaming Awake Quotes
#1. Dreaming awake is sometimes a dangerous thing. In trying to get to heaven you may end up in the hell.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#2. I've dreamed a lot. I'm tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.
Gustave Flaubert
#4. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#5. Sometimes one awakes with the knowledge that unrecallable dreams have been lining your sleep, and though you feel rested, it is the rest of one who has lived for hours in an alternate world, another realm.
Amy Rachel Peterson
#7. I think what I need to do is stay awake while I'm sleeping so I can see what I'm dreaming better!!
Neil Leckman
#8. 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
#10. And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
Lauren Oliver
#11. 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
#12. We shall lie down," Lincoln warned, "pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free; and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State." Lincoln
Eric Foner
#14. Now I'm awake and you're here. Now I'm dreaming and you're here. Now I have nothing but days. Never nights.
Pleasefindthis
#15. But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.
Peter S. Beagle
#16. I don't know if I'm dreaming when I sleep or sleeping while I'm awake, but I have reoccurring dreams my mind cannot take
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#17. A dream isn't worth the sleep, unless you are wide awake when dreaming it.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#18. Constructing models is something the human brain is very good at. When we are asleep it is called dreaming; when we are awake we call it imagination or, when it is exceptionally vivid, hallucination.
Richard Dawkins
#19. 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
#20. I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.
Dean Koontz
#21. There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.
Jenny Han
#22. You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.
Ian Fleming
#23. What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Caryl Churchill
#24. What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#25. 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
#26. The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.
Alex G. Zarate
#27. I sang in the shower, lay awake dreaming. I wore my old dresses, my brightly colored cardigans and my satin pumps, and let myself be enclosed in a bubble of happiness, conscious that bubbles only ever existed for so long before they popped anyway.
Jojo Moyes
#28. When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?
Anthony Liccione
#29. Pages burnt, memories buried, I wake
or think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?
Yong Shu Hoong
#30. 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
#31. But whether I touch him or I run, whether I'm dreaming or I'm awake, on his birthday or on all other days, my whole life has been contaminated with the fact that he is dead.
Jean Hegland
#32. 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
#33. As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Neo: You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
Choi: All the time. It's called mescaline, it's the only way to fly
Matrix
#35. Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn't matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
Michael Anthony
#36. When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.
Smoky Joe Wood
#37. The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.
Marty Rubin
#38. You are asleep and have forgetten that you are dreaming. You mistakenly believe you are awake.
Frederick Lenz
#39. During dreaming, we're tuned inward, we experience vivid visual imagery, our conventional logic system is turned down, and social norms are loosened, all of which can lead to making more creative associations than we make when we're awake and our brain is censoring the illogical," she says.
Andrea Rock
#40. It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,
Until I realised that it was you who held me under.
Florence + The Machine
#41. For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
Rene Descartes
#42. You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.
J.M. Barrie
#43. I would say she's in the place where the river of time runs into, where the holograms go when they disappear into the air, she is neither completely dreaming, nor fully awake,
Annie Fisher
#44. 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
#45. Before you start dreaming, make sure you're awake so that you could follow.
Evans Biya
#46. The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
Bertrand Russell
#47. We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition.
Brian Herbert
#48. 138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse - and forget it immediately.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
Omar Khayyam
#50. Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts
#51. Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!
Ljupka Cvetanova
#52. Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.
J.G. Ballard
#53. It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.
Leonard Jacobson
#54. 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
#55. We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
Ruth Rendell
#56. When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn't you rather skip reality?
Nico J. Genes
#57. Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
Jacqueline Carey
#58. 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
#59. You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?
John Lennon
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