“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
As quoted in Writers (1995) Published by A. Deutsch
1990s
Context: Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Your spouse and children need not get in its way, because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.
“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Enlightenment
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Attributed
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Variant: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
“Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.”
Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
Grey Street
Busted Stuff (2002)
“If you can dream it, you can do it. Never give up on your dreams.”
John Basedow TV Health and Fitness Personality
[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 8]
“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam book Wings of Fire
Source: Wings of Fire, p. 112.