“We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?”

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

Speaking of a dream not fully remembered, in Fragments of a Journal (1966)
Context: I am told, in a dream... you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.

As translated in Lust for Enlightenment : Buddhism and Sex (1990) by John Stevens, p. 28

Source: VALIS

Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 14. Mind and Supermind

&quot;Dream a Little Dream of Me&quot; (1931), was one of Cass Elliot&#x27;s biggest hits but the lyrics by Gus Kahn were written many years before her definitive rendition; the music by Fabian Andre &amp; Wilbur Schwandt. More information on how she came to record it is provided at NPR: &quot;Dream a Little Dream of Me&quot; ranked as one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/100list.html#D. <br class="br">Misattributed

A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings