"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
Erma Bombeck

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

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
Erich Fromm

"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food."
Dorothy Gilman

"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 on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
Thomas E. Lawrence

"The smaller the head, the bigger the dream."
---Austin O'Malley

"Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask."  ~X-Files

"Distressed people have one or more of the following characteristics: 1. they take their dreams too seriously, 2. they have difficulty containing the emotion of the dream, or distracting themselves from it, after awakening, 3. they are experiencing a great deal of life stress and/or have problems in their waking psychosocial adjustment."

"If the individual truly wishes to eliminate the distressing content rather than focus on their reactions, there are techniques which are usually much faster than inducing control or lucidity: sleeping with a light on, daily practice of deep relaxation, systematic desensitization, waking rehearsal of the dream changing the ending to a more positive one, etc."

"In working with individuals presenting with both waking and dreaming problems ... I avoid most dream work, even interpretation (and I include the induction of lucid dream as dream work), with any person who lacks a firm "grounding" in the world. ... Ultimately I view dream work as a set of techniques ideally suited for self exploration and development, but not necessarily useful for establishing equilibrium in distressed individuals."

Kathryn Belicki in Lucidity Letter, vol 8 no 1 1989

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two useless men are called a law firm, and three or more become a Congress."

--A quote attributed to one of America's founders, John Adams, in the play 1776:

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
- Steven Wright