Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with read more

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.