Quotes About Waking Up To Reality

#1. The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

Adyashanti

#2. Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#3. Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

Mark Labberton

#4. Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#5. My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I'm walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.

Margaret Weis

#6. In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

James Redfield

#7. Do you ever experience that psychological quagmire where you wonder if reality really is dreamland and what you presume to be your waking state, fantasy?
When

Phileena Heuertz

#8. It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

Donna Tartt

#9. In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation!

Jaeda DeWalt

#10. But that's what dreams are for - to weave reality and fantasy and memory and stitch together something you can't hope for in waking life. To fulfill that little part of you that wants something so bad.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

Anthony Liccione

#12. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking.

Angela Carter

#13. Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite Excuse me?

Adi Alsaid

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

Rene Magritte

#15. Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.

Ellen Hopkins

#16. "Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

William Gibson

#17. You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Allan Houston

#18. We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream

Cynthia Sue Larson

#19. Waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of ...

Virginia Woolf

#20. The sight of land, far away, brought you back to the reality the sea had made you forget. As you drew nearer to the beach, you would leave behind the waking dream the waves had thrown you into

Edouard Leve

#21. It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Philip K. Dick

#22. Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.

Shannon Hale

#23. Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

Siri Hustvedt

#24. There's nothing more uplifting like the joy of waking up every morning knowing your family is safe from the perils of our society".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#25. Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

Chris Gardner

#26. There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

Tony Blair

#27. The young girl who slept waking in some suspension so completely physical as to resemble the state before birth and as far removed from reality's other extreme as Ellen was from hers

William Faulkner

#28. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.

Lev Shestov

#29. I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

John Byrne

#30. In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

Scott Sigler

#31. The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Heraclitus