Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

 —Edgar Allan Poe

They say dreams are the windows of the soul — take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

 —Henry Bromel

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.                                                                                  —Man Ray

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

 —William Dement

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

—Paul Valery

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

—Joseph Campbell

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

 —Henry David Thoreau

The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfillments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date. There are, it is true, dreams which manifestly represent wishes or fears, but what about all the other things? Dreams may contain ineluctable truths, philosophical pronouncements, illusions, wild fantasies, memories, plans, anticipations, irrational experiences, even telepathic visions, and heaven knows what besides.

 —Carl Jung

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

 —W.H. Auden

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

 —Joseph Conrad

Dreams — A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

 —Erich Fromm

Although the events that appear to take place in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream events are real.

 —Stephen LaBerge

A myth is a public dream; a dream is a private myth.

 —Joseph Campbell

The dream is an involuntary kind of poetry.

 —Jean Paul Richter

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

 —T.E. Lawrence

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

 —Marsha Norman