Yes, I have a dream, and it’s not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there’s a button that I can press and launch that lighthouse into space. The Office US s7e9: WUPHF.com, Stanley
This year lottery player Isabella Hughes claimed her numbers came to her in a dream. She won £2.5 million. Strange But True?
A year ago, a chap called Adrian Hayward asked Paddy Power for a price on Liverpool’s Xabi Alonso scoring a goal during the forthcoming season from inside his own half. He was offered 125-1 and his £200 was turned into £25,000 when Alonso duly scored from improbable range against Luton in the third round of the FA Cup.
‘I watch Liverpool a lot and had seen Alonso try it before,’ he later reported. ‘Also, I’d had a dream about it and just couldn’t get it out of my head.’ Independent online article 19th August 2006
The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor – they never overlap, do they?
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. Adn what do the rich dream of?
Losing weight and looking like the poor. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger p225
I’m an old man and my heart’s a battered vessel. But within, there still beats the fluttering pulse of a dream. Peaky Blinders s1e5, father, BBC 2013
That dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt. Boris Johnson, resignation letter
Dreams and nightmares have long haunted the dark regions of the human mind. Today however we are finding ways to solve the age-old riddle of our subconscious. It may not be long before we can control and plan our own dreams. In Search of s3e14 … Dreams & Nightmares, History 1978
When a major airliner crashes the tragedy is overwhelming, the destruction sudden and complete. In the spring of 1979 a New York woman has a series of dreams of an airliner disaster in the mid-west; two months later a Cincinnati man dreams of a large jet in peril: it crashes and explodes. The dream repeats ten nights in a row and no matter what he does, it will not leave him alone. Were these dreams just nightmares or will they prove to be prophecies? In Search of s4e21 … Air Disaster Prediction
The truth is, for people like us dreams don’t exist. Gomorrah s4e12: Episodio XII, Gennaro to Patrizia, Sky Atlantic 2019
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets. Neil deGrasse Tyson
As writer James Baldwin says, ‘There is scarcely any hope for the American dream. Because people who are denied participation in it, by their very presence will wreck it.’ Exterminate All the Brutes IV: The Bright Colours of Fascism, HBO 2021
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley
The nicest thing for me is sleep; then at least I can dream. Marilyn Monroe