How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly inventing new ways to make life more comfortable we'd apply our ingenuity to fabricating instruments to jog man out of his torpor!

It was like he was in a dream state when he was awake and I was visiting. He would ask if this was real and how he got to the hospital.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Sometimes I wish I had not woken up from a beautiful dream, and continued dreaming within sleep upon sleep until I become a dream itself. Because sometimes waking up is more frightening than a nightmare.

The sleeping Latino giant is finally awake.