What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? The Matrix Morpheus reality sleep
Sometimes reality comes crashing into us. Other times it dawns on us slowly, despite our best efforts to ignore it. Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 12 Gossip Girl reality life quotes
You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles dream
It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens. George Orwell 1984 consciousness
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist pessimism perception
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. George Orwell 1984 O'Brien consciousness reality
Did we create a modern myth, Did we imagine half of it, Would happen in a thought from now? 30 Seconds To Mars A Modern Myth reality myth
It's just a fucking--it's a fucking facade. This whole country is just like one Hollywood backlot-fucking-facade. And it's a really shitty made one at that. Branded Bob Gibbons country
Things were too unsettled, and changing rapidly, and, well, no one could say where they might be in a year. John Grisham Gray Mountain Samantha Kofer uncertainty changes