Sleepwalking Quotes

“Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.”
― Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

“I don’t know,” he said. “I just feel like I have to do something.”
“Do what?”
“I don’t know. That’s what’s wrong. Or part of what’s wrong. I feel like I’m sleepwalking.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria in his landmark work The Major Symptoms of Hysteria. His catalogue of symptoms was staggering, and included somnambulism (not sleepwalking as we think of it today, but a sort of amnesiac condition in which the patient functioned in a trance state, or "second state," and later remembered nothing); trances or fits of sleep that could last for days, and in which the patient sometimes appeared to be dead; contractures or other disturbances in the motor functions of the limbs; paralysis of various parts of the body; unexplained loss of the use of a sense such as sight or hearing; loss of speech; and disruptions in eating that could entail eventual refusal of food altogether. Janet's profile was sufficiently descriptive of Mollie Fancher that he mentioned her by name as someone who "seems to have had all possible hysterical accidents and attacks." In the face of such strange and often intractable "attacks," many doctors who treated cases of hysteria in the 1800s developed an ill-concealed exasperation.”
― Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery

“ 'Maybe you out to go back there.'

'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's what.'

Where I don't forget what I am, and that I don't deserve anything better. Would wreck anything better.

'I Reckon that's what most of us think. But there's more strangers where you're from than in some sandland halfway around the world. And more strangers in your head than any place on the map.' ”
― Lisa Henry, When All the World Sleeps

“Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing baby's diaper”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“I love sleepwalking, because when else would I get to combine exercise and rest?”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“A boring machine, would it drill holes—or put you to sleep? The two-party political system, that’s a boring machine, though voters are waking up. I'd like to think my ducks quacking for their breakfast in the morning is also helping The Sleepwalkers rise from their slumber.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly.”
― Erin Kelly, The Poison Tree

“Ramona wasn’t sure of what had triggered the sleepwalking.”
― Moira Daly, The Last Summer

“We can think of the “event horizon” as simply the barrier between dimensionless and dimensional existence. When we go to sleep and start dreaming, we find ourselves on the other side – the soul side – of the event horizon. Waking puts us on the body side of the event horizon. An out-of-body experience is when our body goes to sleep, but our mind remains on the body side of the event horizon. Sleepwalking happens when our mind goes to the soul side of the event horizon but our body remains active on the body side of the event horizon.”
― Mike Hockney, Ontological Mathematics: How to Create the Universe

“Did humanity once “sleepwalk” during the day? Was Homo sapiens preceded by Homo roboticus? And is Homo sapiens actually just a cloak that Homo roboticus wears, i.e., Homo roboticus remains the core human? If you remove the “wise” cloak, you go straight back to the robot. All humans are robots underneath, and the controllers of modern society are much more interested in the robot than the person.”
― Rob Armstrong, Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis

“He had been sleepwalking through his own life, a life that was a canvas devoid of colour, and at last, he had awoken to a dazzling reality.”
― M. A. Kuzniar

“Could it really be the case that so many of our problems proliferate because this mesmerizing construct and its somnambulistic denizens have forgotten how to dance? how to sing? how to engage storytelling? how to enter into silence?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality