A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming Quotes

“A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t learned to ask.” Those words were spoken by Special Agent Dana Scully,”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Awareness is not a binary switch, on or off. It lies on a spectrum from "zombie" to "Buddha" and everything in between.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Take a tour around the solar system, barrel-roll above the moon, venture into the darkness of space.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Ask your nightmarish demon questions like: Why are you chasing me? What do you want? Who are you? Why am I in this situation? How can I help you? What do you represent? What do you have to teach me?”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Superpowers What we think, we become. —Buddha, spirtual teacher, available in both skinny and tubby varieties”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“You can talk to a flower, ask a teapot a question, or even speak to the dream itself. A friend of ours once had an entire conversation with a bed frame.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“The Matrix, “If real is what you can feel, smell, taste, and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“The more the mind can be still before sleep, said Aristotle, the more the dreamer can learn. If you go to bed calm, the memories of your dreams will be clearer come morning.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“I am lucid and aware in my dream.” Thinking in the present tense eliminates any doubt that your wish will come true.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. —George Bernard Shaw, Irish literary critic, playwright, and snarky gentleman”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t learned to ask.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. —Lillian Smith, author, social critic, and notorious fighter for equal rights The”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth. —F. A. Keule, German chemist, discovered more in dreams than most do awake Aloud”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“After the change, we emerged as Homo sapiens sapiens, Latin for “man wise wise,” or, as author Michael Mahoney muses, “he who knows he knows.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“If you master lucid dreaming, what makes you want to return to reality?” Reality can be boring.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Could it be that dreams act more like the online virtual world Second Life, where we meet other dreamers in a common landscape?”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“A popular activity among lucid dreamers is to bluntly ask, “Do you know that you don’t really exist and you’re in my dream?” Almost always, the native will look at you like you’re bonkers or they’ll get highly offended—I’m not real?!”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Write a song and ask a sycamore tree to sing it for you.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“In fact, an average 72 percent of lucid dreams tend to happen in this way, with a technique the lucid dreaming community calls a DILD or a “Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream.” A DILD is simply a dream where you become lucid after the dream has already started.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“holy crap! During a typical lifetime that’s an average of six years spent dreaming!”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“would “find” a bathroom and look into the toilet. If I saw my reflection in the toilet I would know I was dreaming and then go about interacting with the dream fully aware.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Typically, lucid dreams are triggered by some sort of inconsistency, something that suddenly causes the dreamer to stop and question his or her reality.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“Conscious dreaming was not hogwash, but an actual, provable experience.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics

“He sits alone, monitoring a man named Alan Worsley as he sleeps, watching the monotonous up-and-down charting of ink on his polysomnograph machine.”
― Dylan Tuccillo, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics