Dreams remind us that there is an Otherworld.
-Patrick Harpur

There is no dream so archetypal
that it does not contain some residue
of the dreamer's personal imagery,
just as there is no dream so personal
that it does not contain a whiff of the archetypal.
-Patrick Harpur

The dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form,
of the actual situation in the unconscious.
-Carl Jung

A dream is a microscope through which we look
at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
-Erich Fromm

A dream always points to an unconscious situation.
-Edward Whitmont

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge
of the unconscious activities of the mind.
-Sigmund Freud

The whole world of dreams
is a metaphorical, symbolic one.
-Marion Woodman

Dreams say what they mean,
but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin

Symbols are the language of dreams.
In dreams, the unconscious is revealed in symbols,
and the key to understanding a dream,
is knowledge of the symbol.
-Fraser Boa

If we take the time to learn their language,
we discover that every dream is a masterpiece
of symbolic communication.
-Robert Johnson

The analysis of dreams
is an art, a technique, a science of a psychological life;
it is not game but a practical value to those who learn the language.
-Carl Jung

The dream is a mountain that thought must climb.
-Andrea Azulay

Dreaming is the psyche itself doing its soul-work.
-James Hillman

A dream itself is but a shadow.
-William Shakespeare

Dreams are analogous to forms
reflected in water.
-Aristotle

We often forget our dreams so speedily:
if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door,
we never set eyes on them again.
-William Hazlitt

Dreams are real while they last.
Can we say more of life?
-Havelock Ellis

The dream itself is a texture woven of time and space
inside which we find ourselves.
-Robert Bosnak

We organize our daily experiences
according to our coordination of time, space and matter.
No so in our dreams.
There we seem to link events, not according to space and time,
but to feeling and emotion.
-Fred Alan Wolf

One dreams in the first place
and almost to the exclusion of all else, of oneself.
-Carl Jung

Dreams are a drama
taking place on one's own interior stage.
-Carl Jung

The whole dream work is essentially subjective,
and a dream is a theatre in which the dreamer himself
is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer,
the author, the public and the critic.
-Carl Jung

Dreams wherein often we see ourselves
in masquerade.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should always first ask,
"What is it in me that does that?"
instead of taking the dream as a warning against other people.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

A good way to connect to the inner parts of yourself
is to think of each dream figure
as an actual person living inside you.
Think of each person in your dreams
as one of the autonomous personalities
that co-exist within your psyche
and combine to make up your total self.
-R. A. Johnson

Dreams point to your back, to what you don't see,
and you have to stand on your head...
to understand your own dreams.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

A dream is quite capable...
of naming the most painful and disagreeable things
without least regard for the feelings of the dreamer.
-Carl Jung

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

-William Hazlitt

Judge of your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dream ego is never more significant
than any other figure in the dream.
-John A. Sanford

The metaphors in dreams give us a picture of our psychic condition
and how to change it.
-Marion Woodman

Every dream is not only the unconscious working of the psychic energy,
but also a shaping of that energy.
-Marion Woodman

The dream continually corrects our waking course.
-Marion Woodman

Sleep brings body into balance;
dream brings psyche into balance.
-Marion Woodman

Dreams always point to the inner center.
They are like hundreds of forms all pointing to the inner center.
Every dream is an attempt of nature to center us,
to relate us again back to our innermost center,
to stabilize our personality.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

Learn from your dreams what you lack.
-W. H. Auden

They [dreams] are invariably seeking to express something
that the ego does not know and does not understand.
-Carl Jung

[Jung] found it essential to approach dreams with a humble attitude,
because the most important dream messages
are ahead of the the dreamer's current knowledge and understanding.
-Mary Ann Mattoon

Dreams are today's answers
to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce

A dream not interpreted
is like a letter that is unread.
-The Talmud

A thing in a dream
means what it recalls to the mind.
-Sigmund Freud

Circumambulation makes possible looking at the image from all sides,
and describes a metaphoric circle,
the content of which suggests the meaning of that image.
-Mary Ann Mattoon

Every dream, if it is really understood,
not only with the intellect but really emotionally understood,
has such a shotlike "Aha!" effect upon one.
If you do not have that, then you have not understood the dream yet;
it has not been formulated in a way that you can accept.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

The only "correct"interpretation of a dream...
is the one that gives the dreamer a joyful "aha" experience of insight
and moves him to change his life in some constructive fashion.
-Ann Faraday

As with a dream interpreted by one still sleeping,
the interpretation is only the next room of the dream.
-Howard Nemerov

Dreams are the quickest way into our inner world.
They astonish us with their wisdom about past, present, future.
-Marion Woodman

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man,
even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.
-Paracelsus

Dreams show us how to find a meaning in our lives,
how to fulfill our own destiny,
how to realize the greater potential of life within us.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

Dreams guide and help us
after we set goals and ideals for our lives.
-Edgar Cayce

Dreams give us images
that can feed the soul.
-Marion Woodman

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe

We are near waking
when we dream that we dream.
-Novalis

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
-George Gordon Noel Byron

Is this a dream? O if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allan Poe

As a person advances spiritually,
his dreams become more beautiful and prophetic.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan