97 Metaphors for dreams

We all feel that the dreams we cannot remember are the most wonderful.

There is nothing in the world but second bests, but dreams are an excellent second best.

"Her dream was play, compared tosome.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.

The Indians believe all dreams to be revelations, sometimes made by the familiar genius, and sometimes by the "inner or divine soul."

A dream with an arctic setting may be the result of becoming uncovered on a cold night.

Her morning dreams are all the sweeter for that reason.

Deep sleep dreams are in the true sense clairvoyant, though for the most part irrecoverable "Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?"

Dreams and the shadows of dreams be memories, nothing more, and the dog, whining asleep in the sun-warmth, doubtless sees and remembers things gone before.

His Dream of Gerontius is, however, a finer, as more ambitious poem than any of Faber's.

His great dream of lifting colonization out of disrepute, and of founding colonies which should be daughter-states worthy of their great mother, has been no false or fleeting vision.

The opinion is as old as Aristotle, who asserted, that a dream is only the [Greek: Phantasma] or appearance of things, excited in the mind, and remaining after the objects are removed.

Cherries, again, indicate inconstancy; but one would scarcely expect to find the thistle regarded as lucky; for, according to an old piece of folk-lore, to dream of being surrounded by this plant is a propitious sign, foretelling that the person will before long have some pleasing intelligence.

His dream was a shadowing of the truth.

That dream was the complete mastery of his art; it was his ideal attained, or closely approached.

The dreams of Agnes, on the night after her conversation with the monk and her singular momentary interview with the cavalier, were a strange mixture of images, indicating the peculiarities of her education and habits of daily thought.

"The sweetest dreams in my life are the briefest.

Yet, O, to dream were sweet! LEADER.

From the moment that it first rang upon her ears, the dream of her happiness was prostrate in the dust.

His splendid, yet melancholy, dreams are the most famous in the language.

There may be pleasant phases to the imagined happeningsthis must be when the pain has for the moment ceasedbut the dream is usually most perplexing, and its culmination most grotesque.

Dreams are sweet, love, e'er the shifting Shows how false is the shore, When the tide turns.

The dream of to-day may be reality to-morrow.

and though he might not, even in thought, dream of possessing her himself, was there sin in the vehement energy with which his whole nature rose up in him to say that no other man should,that she should be the bride of Heaven alone?

Dreams are the hushing of the bodily senses, that the eyes of the Spirit may open.

97 Metaphors for  dreams