Taking a step back

Instead of posting a dream this time I've decided to look up some quotes about dreams/dreaming. This was inspired by a song I have playing on repeat.            

 So here are a some quotes I found from various sources books/lyrics/people  that I found either interesting, amusing and or true along with my thoughts on a few of them.

Let's start off with an easy one, one that I'm sure just about everyone has heard "A dream is a wish your heart makes"- Cinderella This is just plain scary, I mean most of my dreams are messed up and I don't think that any part of me would be wishing that they would come true. Also if a dream is a wish your heart makes, what is a nightmare?! I don't even want to think about it

This next one I just found amusing and thought it would defiantly be worth sharing, enjoy.

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'

If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.

They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'

So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”  - George Carlin

Music is a big part of my life so here are a few quotes from different songs about dreaming.

"I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" -Mad World 

"Dreaming of screaming someone kick me out of my mind I hate these thoughts I can't deny" -System of a down

“Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?
Let me hear you BREATHE
Let me watch as you sleep
The Sparrow's Eyes... Promises shift into judgments
I cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments” -Slipknot

"When dreaming I'm guided to another world time and time again. At sunrise I fight to stay asleep 'cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place. 'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape from the life I live when I'm awake" - Creed

Sometimes I feel that my dreams alienate me from everyone else. They sometimes make me feel like I am crazy(not that I'm denying the fact just saying that they make me feel even more insane than before I went to bed)

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." -Edgar Allan Poe

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake." - Rene Descartes

But then I guess everyone's a little insane in their sleeping world...

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.” -Charles Fisher

Only recently have I began to feel better whilst asleep and I think this quote describes that feeling perfectly

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" -Ernest Hemingway

I wonder if people who lecture talk in their sleep or lecture in their sleep... can they escape talking?!

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep." - Albert Camus

This just made me giggle and wonder what would happen if you put a sober cannibal and drunk Christian together for the night... 

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." - Herman Melville

To interrupt, no I don't always sleep well, and I usually snore, talk, or moan in my sleep I've even been known to walk around and sleep walk as well.   So I wonder if these are true..

"Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.” - Paul Newman

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”  - David Benioff

This is the last quote and I wonder are sleep and death really so closely related,? Surely they could be but If that is the case, does sleep prepare us for death? and do we (after we die) simply dream into oblivion?

“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.” -Nancy A. Collins