Stephen LaBerge Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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• If you must sleep through a third of your life,
  why should you sleep through your dreams, too?.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Should

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• 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

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• 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

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• 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

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• Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Color, Mood

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• 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

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• 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

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Research

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• 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, Essentials

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• 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

  "Turning vivid dreams into reality" by Donna Tapellini, www.wired.com. March 19, 2001.

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• Control yourself, not your dreams.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Your Dreams

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• Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Vivid Imagination, People

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• 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

  Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.7, Sounds True

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• We don't teach our children how to dream.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Children, Teach

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• 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

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• 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

  "The Edge of Dreaming". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• 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 Life

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• I have never been awake before.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Awake

  Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.45, Sounds True

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• 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, Vivid Imagination

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Be true to yourself and you will never fail.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Failure, Be True To Yourself, Failing

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• I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Research, Taste, Equipment

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• We dream every night, all the time.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Night, Every Night

  "The Edge of Dreaming". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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