Dream
Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Scientists believe that, in addition to humans, certain birds and the majority of mammals also dream.
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Famous quotes containing the word dream:
“Nor shall you scare us with talk of the
death of the race.
How should we dream of this place without us?—
The sun mere fire, the leaves untroubled about us,
A stone look on the stone’s face?”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“Oh well,
it doesn’t belong to me,
if a cigar can be a cigar
then a dream can be a dream.
Right?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow- storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)