Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dreams Drove Hell Holy Night Nightmares Sleeping Tangle Waking

All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly inventing new ways to make life more comfortable we'd apply our ingenuity to fabricating instruments to jog man out of his torpor!

~ René Daumal

René Daumal Comfort Sleeping Waking

Perhaps that is what I like about these moments of leisurely insight, that come while lying comfortably in the beautiful in-between state of sleeping and waking, dreaming and doing, in which anything is possible and everything is lovely.

~ Kayla Severson

Kayla Severson Beauty Doing Dreaming Insight Lovely Possible Sleeping Waking

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

~ Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Awake Confusion Disoriented Fear Nightmares Odd Thomas Remember Waking

I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake, because the sun is gone and they are addicts without their drug, sleeping restlessly and often waking, walking the dark corridors of forests searching for the sun.

~ Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe Biologists Ecstasy Searching For The Sun Sleeping Sunlight The Dark Corridors Of Forests The Sun Trees Waking

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

~ Novalis

Novalis Dream Dreaming Waking

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

~ Henry Miller

Henry Miller Mind Arts Waking