Lucid Dreaming Quotes

“So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.
I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.
(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Dreams are the museum for artists.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Don’t let your dreams end in your sleep. Bring them over here!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“When you can’t find the answer in your waking life, take a stroll in the dream world.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Your dream is a portal to your destiny.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Your dreams are the wealth of your mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“The life of the dreamer, that is a projectionist, is a life of duality. A projectionist is a being that exists in two worlds simultaneously. On the one hand they participate in what at first seems to be a rather static existence, surrounded by human beings that oftentimes don’t have an inkling of the marvels possible to them. And on the other they explore and take part in fantastic adventures in worlds beyond rational description.”
― John Kreiter, The Way of the Projectionist: Alchemy’s Secret Formula to Altered States and Breaking the Prison of the Flesh

“Store your dreams in your memory’s travel bag, for one day, they will be needed in the course of your life’s journey.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Each night, your dreams come to inspire you to bring out the magic in your mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Ask your dream characters questions.
They know something you do not know.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Dreams are the clay through which we mold our art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Lucid dreams are the dreamer’s treasure.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Whatsoever it is that we failed to see, our dreams will reveal them to us.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“[W]hether it’s a regular dream or a lucid dream, it may simply be taking place at a psychic level. But what we’re really aiming for is engagement, through active imagination, at the imaginal level.”
― H.M. Forester, The Imaginal Veil

“A wetness touched Elliott’s bare feet, as if the ocean licked her toes and swam beneath the arches of each foot. Except this wasn’t seawater; it was a torrent of her mother’s tears.”
― Kristi Strong, Balloon Days

“In dreams we become timeless. We can stretch one breath to the infinite, nestle deep into that single heartbeat, and create something wondrously impossible. We can shape our worlds and live our lives to their fullest. As many lives as we want, and in any direction. But we don’t know at what point that breath, that heartbeat, will reclaim us and transform everything we built into forgotten dust. Not even a full memory, only a ghost of a dream, replaced by the incessant light demanding that our bodies adhere to its own cruel schedule.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“Mastering your subconscious thoughts, within a dream state, has shown itself to be medicine for anyone who has committed themselves to its greatness.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“Chapter 5 of my book, Esotericism with An Unconventional Soul, is called Healing with Lucid Dreaming. I had so much fun writing, researching, and spilling the beans about this particular subject.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“It felt as if the world had suddenly revealed itself to be a dream. She knew that she was free to do whatever she wanted, but she didn’t dare. Real or not, she had to go on living in this dream world day after day.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“The second attention is available to all of us, but, by willfully holding on to our half-cocked rationality, some of us more fiercely than others, keep the second attention at arm’s length.

His idea was that dreaming brings down the barriers that surround and insulate the second attention.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Seeing children's assemblage points constantly fluttering, as if moved by tremors, changing their place with ease, the old sorcerers came to the conclusion that the assemblage points habitual location is not innate but brought about by habituation.

Seeing also that only in adults is it fixed on one spot, they surmised that the specific location of the assemblage point fosters a specific way of perceiving.

Through usage, this specific way of perceiving becomes a system of interpreting sensory data.

Since we are drafted into that system by being born into it, from the moment of our birth we imperatively strive to adjust our perceiving to conform to the demands of this system, a system that rules us for life.

Consequently, the old sorcerers were thoroughly right in believing that the act of countermanding it and perceiving energy directly is what transforms a person into a sorcerer.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“At that moment he happily became the ‘walking crazy’: those who are conscious of the fact that they have lost their sanity, and that in losing their sanity, they have reached a higher level of existence. And as the walking crazy, the young man closed his eyes and fell deeply within, finding there not darkness but other worlds, complete other spaces where he was free from all physical pain and struggle.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“If we choose to recondition our interpretation system, reality becomes fluid, and the scope of what can be real is enhanced without endangering the integrity of reality.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Dreaming requires every bit of our available energy,' he replied. 'If there is a deep preoccupation in our life, there is no possibility of dreaming.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Until the energy body is complete and mature, it is self-absorbed. It can't get free from the compulsion to be absorbed by everything.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“In the view of sorcerers,
the universe is constructed in layers, which the energy body can cross.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Don Juan chuckled and said, 'You haven't dreamt with Carol Tiggs yet. You'll find out that it's
a treat.

Sorceresses don't need any props. They just go to that world whenever they want to; for
them, there is a scout on permanent call.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Just like we don't take responsibility for how we actualize our confusion and its resulting view of duality, we don't take responsibility for actualizing wisdom and its view of nonduality.”
― Andrew Holecek, Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening Through Lucid Dreaming

“Protect the seedling of
hope! Hold it while they whip you like they whipped me. Your tears will water it. It will take root in your stomach; it will not abandon
you. Your belly will seem a little warmer, the lashings of today a little
tamer, and the dawn not so far away.”
― Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth

“I relentlessly scrutinized one question: ‘How do I plant a tiny unpretentious seed for myself in this barren world? How do I forfeit what is, and start living for the kingdom in my heart?’ I kept repeating it and repeating it in my head. I knew a dreamer should breathe; break the mold in which he was set. Imagination was the answer. I knew it was all in there, prepared like a dining table for me.”
― Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth