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Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality. -- Stephen LaBerge
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery. -- Stephen LaBerge
When I approached Volume 1 of 'Lucid,' I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. -- Michael McMillian
Lucid Dreaming is the ability of a brain to download the information of a possible futuristic state of an event from a Parallel Universe. -- Vishwanath S J
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader. -- Del Howison
When I approached Volume 1 of Lucid, I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. -- Michael McMillian
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle's bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human. -- Marina Endicott
There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. -- Stephen LaBerge
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. -- Dylan Thomas
I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either. -- Leonard Slatkin
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. -- John McAfee
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job. -- Jacques Delors
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. -- Stephen LaBerge
My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time. -- CeeLo Green
I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do. -- Imre Kertesz
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. -- Anna Freud
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too? -- Stephen LaBerge
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. -- Stephen LaBerge
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. -- Marilyn French
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing. -- Bob Shacochis
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson. -- Francine Prose
When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established. -- Jonathan Glazer
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. -- Paul Reiser
My style is ambiguous and lucid. -- CeeLo Green
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. -- Henry Watson Fowler
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. -- Albert Camus
Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy. -- Mason Cooley
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine. -- Vladimir Nabokov
It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. -- Coleman Barks
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid -- Heinrich Heine
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. -- Albert Camus
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. -- Hosea Ballou
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. -- Thomas Harris
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. -- John Szarkowski
lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky. -- Hermann Hesse
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered. -- Albert Camus
I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film. -- Miguel Gomes
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. -- Pierre L. van den Berghe
Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair. -- Celia Thaxter
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. -- Rudyard Kipling
What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid. -- John Fowles
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. -- Leo Tolstoy
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. -- Wallace Stevens
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. -- Peter Matthiessen
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference. -- Albert Camus
I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is. -- Carrie Fisher
What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light. -- R.N. Prasher
The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling. -- Nigel Cooke
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. -- Pat Conroy
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. -- Gretel Ehrlich
By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away. -- Humphry Davy
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. -- William Cowper
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect. -- Thomas Merton
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur. -- Mira Bartok
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. -- Salvador Dali
The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics-you can do magic. -- Paul Davies
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child. -- Paul Eluard
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. -- Henry Watson Fowler
You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy. -- Nhat Hanh
I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene. -- Hanshan
The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders. -- Karl Hess

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