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Free Write

noun; Date: 13th century

1 : a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep -- compare REM SLEEP

2 : an experience of waking life having the characteristics of a dream: as a : a visionary creation of the imagination : DAYDREAM b : a state of mind marked by abstraction or release from reality : REVERIE c : an object seen in a dreamlike state : VISION

3 : something notable for its beauty, excellence, or enjoyable quality <the new car is a dream to operate>

4 a : a strongly desired goal or purpose <a dream of becoming president> b : something that fully satisfies a wish : IDEAL <a meal that was a gourmet's dream>

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Free Write

If we are really to discover the purpose of dreams, we must find what purpose is served by forgetting dreams or by not understanding them... perhaps the real significance of a dream is that it is not to be understood; perhaps there is a dynamism of the mind working to baffle us.

-- Alfred Adler, (From "On the Interpretation of Dreams", in the International Journal of Individual Psychology, Vol 2, No.1, pages 3-16, 1936.)

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Dream as Passage or Connection

If a prayer today is spoken
Please offer it for me
When the bridge to heaven is broken
and I'm lost on the wild, wild sea.

"The Wild Wild Sea"
Sting
The Soul Cages

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Dream
landscapes

There was a time when great men dreamed great dreams, and achieved them.
Now are the days when petty men dream petty dreams... and achieve them, too.
-- introduction to Traveler, a science fiction role playing game

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Dream timeline

If dreams are like movies
Then memories are films about ghosts.

"Mrs. Potters' Lullabye"
The Counting Crows
This Desert Life

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Response

All people dream, but not equally.  Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.  But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.
-- T.E. Lawrence

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Dream identity

"A dream is a theatre in which the dreamer himself is the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer, the author, the public and the critic."
-- Carl Jung

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Dream as Vision

Some men see things as they are and ask why. 
Others dream things that never were and ask why not. 
-- George Bernard Shaw

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Dream as warning

Hello, darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again.
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted
in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

"The Sounds of Silence"
Simon & Garfunkel
The Sounds of Silence

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Free Write

"Dream as if you'll live forever...
live as if you'll die today." 
-- James Dean