Dream Work Quotes

“Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly, to represent a displaced common feature; but thirdly, to find expression for a common feature that is merely wished for. Since wishing it to be the case that two people have something in common is often the same as exchanging them, this relation too is expressed in the dream by identification. In the dream of Irma's injection, I wish to exchange this patient for another, that is, I wish that the other were my patient, as Irma is; the dream takes account of the wish in showing me a figure who is called Irma, but who is examined in a posture in which I have only had occasion to see the other.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“You need to do the work to make the dream work.”
― Ari Gunzburg, The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny

“Until the energy body is complete and mature, it is self-absorbed. It can't get free from the compulsion to be absorbed by everything.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“In the view of sorcerers,
the universe is constructed in layers, which the energy body can cross.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming