When I dream, I am always ageless.
—Elizabeth Coatsworth
You know that there's a whole underground system that you call "dreams," having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar—where you are now, where you've always been.
—Alice Munro
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream—a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows—is essentially poetry.
—Michel Leiris
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.
—Terri Guillemets
A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not read.
—Talmud
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
—Stephen LaBerge
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.
—Gail Godwin
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
—Elias Canetti
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
—John Cheever
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
—Vivian Mercer
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
—Joseph Campbell
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.
—F.H. Hedge
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
—Steven Wright
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
—Joan Didion