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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly i...

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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

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Theodore RoethkeWords for the Wind: The Collected Verse

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and ...

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Angela CarterThe Lady of the House of Love

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...

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... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than any...

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I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to...

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I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a ...

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When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleepi...

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervatin...

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