We don't learn the word "dream" by being shown a dream, the way we learn the word "apple" by being shown an apple.
—Anonymous
When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It is a continuous dream.
—Antonio Porchia
I am the dream you are dreaming. When you want to awaken, I am that wanting.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
To Dream
I sit up startled, curious,
wondering how I arrived
in that world from this one,
and back into here from there.
The transition was so easy.
like falling asleep, requiring
no secret key or sacred word.
In my dream, the ocean
dreams of being the sky and
I dream I am everything.
In the morning, I awake into
my dream, the ocean into hers.
Photo Credit: Flaming June, Frederick Lord Leighton, P. R. A. (1830-1896). 1895. Oil on canvas; 46 x 46 inches. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico.