“These partygoers hadn’t been the cool kids growing up. They’d spent their adolescence buried in art books, scrawling poems into steno pads during recess, living full stories in their heads. Distracted by their artistic micro-obsessions, many forgot to learn how to engage with the world. They were too busy studying life, storing up their notes to use later in a novel, a song, a script, a painting. They were observers, not joiners.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
“The dreamer, like the daydreamer, lacks “meta-awareness”; she is ignorant of the state she’s in and succumbs to the illusion that the fictive world is the only one. Tennyson put it well in “The Higher Pantheism”: “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
“Exceptionally creative people may be naturally prone to vivid dreaming; high dream recall is correlated with habits and personality traits often shared by artists, such as “openness to experience,” “tolerance of ambiguity,” an inclination toward fantasy, and a tendency to daydream. People who remember their dreams every night tend to have an easier time of losing themselves in projects and are likelier to agree with statements like “I am full of ideas” and “I am interested in abstractions.”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Whether story-like or absurd, whether obviously relevant or not, dreams remind artists that, even when they feel blocked, the ability to create fictional worlds still resides within them.”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
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