The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it cant wake up. – David Herbert Lawrence

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? – Leonardo da Vinci