“When I am asleep, I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.”

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

“I see nightmares when I sleep and I dream about you when I'm awake.”

Rymin

“I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix (1964) American author

“I am happy that America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams. Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Dreams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“How tell what remains? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.”

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

“I dream big because I believe I am what I think I am”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”

Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan

“I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress