Nightmares Quotes

• If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

  

  Betsy Sholl
  • Dreams
  • Urgency
  • Nightmares

• When words fail, haunting images capture the experience and return as nightmares and flashbacks. In contrast to the deactivation of Broca’s area, another region, Brodmann’s area 19, lit up in our participants. This is a region in the visual cortex that registers images when they first enter the brain. We were surprised to see brain activation in this area so long after the original experience of the trauma. Under ordinary conditions raw images registered in area 19 are rapidly diffused to other brain areas that interpret the meaning of what has been seen. Once again, we were witnessing a brain region rekindled as if the trauma were actually occurring.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Images

• Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Protect
  • Fantasy
  • Strange Things

• The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • First
  • Second
  • Dragon

• This place was confusing and noisy. People were yelling. There were screams. Confusion. Desperation. Barking. Orders. Crying, crying, crying. The crying of children for parents. The crying of parents for their babies. The crying of people confused and bewildered. The crying of people who saw with certainty that their nightmares had come true. All together the cries resounded with the ultimate and most unimaginable pain of human loss, emotional grief and suffering.

  

  Eva Mozes Kor
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Confusing

• Every night I had nightmares. I dreamed of rats the size of cats, dead bodies, and needles stuck into me. After we found out that the Nazi's had made soup out of Jewish fat, I dreamed that soap bars spoke to me in the voices of my parents and sisters, asking me, "Why are you washing with us?

  

  Eva Mozes Kor
  • Jewish
  • Voices
  • Dreamed

• The fears of a few seconds ago seem unfounded, as nightmares always do when the light comes back on.

  

  Erin Kelly
  • Light
  • Fears
  • Nightmares

• Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

  

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Sleeping

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