Maybe, life is a kind of waking dream.Maybe, it's a double-dream with a false awakening.Maybe, the dream only becomes lucid and truly luminous given the fuller perspective of life after one's own wake.Maybe, the pictures never stop.Doesn't the existence of dreams and higher consciousness during the years of blackouts of a lifetime, whether longer or shorter, give us a valid premise to hope that another highly spiritual state may await our passing?

~ David B. Lentz

David B. Lentz Dream State Dreams Luminous Dreams

Even when dreaming, if the sentient beings who dwell in the three lower realms are witnessed, then at that moment one should pray to sever the continuity of their negat

~ Pema Lungtok Gyatso

Pema Lungtok Gyatso Buddhism Dream State Liberation Mahayana

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

~ William Gibson

William Gibson Altered States Dream State Fading Lost Slipping Away Vulnerability