Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

We dream every night, all the time.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.