The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the disparity between one's perceived life and the ideal life envisioned in dreams.
Philip K. Dick explores the concept of self-perception versus the aspirations we hold within ourselves. He suggests that the person we believe we are may not truly reflect the richness of life we dream of, indicating a profound sense of dissatisfaction and a yearning for a deeper, more meaningful existence.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech to inspire people to reflect on their true desires.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
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