Henry Reed Quotes:

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

Topics: Mean, Oneness, Psychics, Sixth Sense

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

Topics: Elements, Creation, Interdependence, Interconnected

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

Topics: Night, Influence, Night Time

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

Topics: Dream, Seems

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.259, We Publish Books

Topics: Dream, People, Psychology

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Topics: Conscious, Right Now, Knows

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

Topics: Dream, Impact, Culture

There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

source: - 1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

Topics: Distance, Years, Judging

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Topics: Dream, Empathy, Use, Containing, Hidden Messages

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

Topics: Dream, Awakening, Remember

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

Topics: Philosophy, Medicine, Listening, Sensations, Chemical Reactions

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

Topics: Dream, Process, Interpretation, Interpretation Of Dreams

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

Topics: Dream, Real, Understanding, Pushing Boundaries

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

Topics: Dream, Son, Interpretation

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.260, We Publish Books

Topics: Parenting, Movement, Presses, Dreamworks

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

Topics: Spiritual, Reading, Space, Spiritual Dimensions

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

Topics: Dream, Reality, People

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

source: - 'Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)' (1946)

Topics: Believe, Simple, Pumps, Stirrups

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

Topics: Dream, Use, Reason

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

Topics: Dream, Thinking, People

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.260, We Publish Books

Topics: Dream, Encouragement, People

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

source: - Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.256, We Publish Books

Topics: Dream, Morning, Lying

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

Topics: Sleep, Opportunity, Perspective, Resonating

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.

Topics: Fall, Sleep, Childhood

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

source: - "Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" l. 1 (1946)

Topics: Morning, War, Yesterday, Tomorrow Morning

We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.

source: - "Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" l. 20 (1946)

Topics: Spring, Flower, Slides

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

source: - 'Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)' (1946)

Topics: Years, Two, Four