Stephen LaBerge famous quotes

07-01-2025

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Trying #Answers
If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Real #Imagination
If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Sleep #Should
Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Differences #Waking
There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Differences #Input
If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Views #Brain
Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Real #Anxiety
Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Real #Mind
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Interesting #Childhood #Understanding
In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Sleep #Eye
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Differences #Perception
It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Important #Research #Medical
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Self Confidence #Creative
I have never been awake before.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Awake
Control yourself, not your dreams.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream
You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Mean #Firsts #Funding
We dream every night, all the time.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Night
Be true to yourself and you will never fail.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Failure #Be True To Yourself #Failing
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Buddhist #Moving
Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Reality #Brain
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Sleep #Fields
I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Taste #Research #Equipment
Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Night #Reality
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Imagination #People
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Talking #Evolution
We don't teach our children how to dream.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Children #Teach
Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.
-- Stephen LaBerge

#Dream #Color #Mood

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