“Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.” KnowsWorldRealDreamLastsThis WorldBackwardsUnrealPageant Author:Frederick Lenz
“The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.” MenWorldNeedsFeelingsDreamSpiritualWonderConditionsEssenceNotionDawnPhenomenonSuperstitionsSavagesUnrealHereditarySaturatedThoroughness Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)
“Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” PeopleWellsDreamDiesGoes OnStonesWoodsLegendsFragileUnreal Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel
“We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.” LifeDoeRealDreamSeemsLife IsBeliefImagineEvidenceWakingImagine ThatUnrealWaking Life Author:Wei Wu Wei