Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "The dream of being able to shut oneself off from the state and the world and one's own time"

• I am tired of trying to change the world one person at a time
• Imagine if you achieved a higher state of being from the Weather Channel
• No one dreams of being a guidance counselor
• One World, One Dream
• If you press your ear to the wrist of the world you can hear every heartbeat from the beginning of time
• The Wheel of Time has collapsed under the weight of its own bloated corpse
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• You make a light in the world and you hope someone can still look up from the dust for long enough to see it
• Mice will continue to dream of Cats shedding claws from radiation sickness
• A Tale for the Time Being
• The Good Ones From Inside
• Telling real pearls from fake ones
• only by consuming pieces of one another can beings such as we exist
• From the Earth to the Moon: 22: The New Citizen of the United States
• Your facts peel away from your own fiction
• Send me the pillow, the one that you dream on
• Every kitchen maid should be able to administer state affairs
• Man with one leg shoe dream man
• Being betrayed by one's own body
• the tension between the dream world and the waking
• Moving a SharePoint portal from one drive to another
• Final Comments from Judge Parker to Wen Ho Lee, part one
• When Will You Die for the Last Time in My Dreams?
• On getting blown up 8000 miles from home by a man who does not own shoes
• From one single idea, everything appeared here
• one time password
• One long June I came down from the trees
• Growing up just means being able to climb bigger trees
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• The dubious distinction of being criticized from the left by the Ku Klux Klan
• Beings from space: What could they want?
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
• Of course I agreed, feeling the door to the dream world blow open with a chill gust
• I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
• being my own contemporary
• dream state
• Three Dreams, One Weekend
• we are not separate from the world
• Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental Liar from the state of Maine
• From Third World to First
• Looking back from time to time, her tears falling fast
• From 'The Seven Dreams Of The Golden Unicorn' by Reynold Cosby
• I never remembered my dreams until they started being about you
• One Impulse from a Vernal Wood
• Public announcement from US State Dept. advising worldwide caution
• The Thing From Another World
• The Doctor is the Nameless One from Planescape: Torment
• Stories from The World (category)
• Time is nature's way of stopping things from happening all at once
• Flying from the United States to Cuba
• Episodic bursts of kindness and charity don’t free one from culpability
• One Step from Eden
• They devour the frayed edges of the world, and all we hear is chitinous clicking from the darkness
• One day at a time
• A Room of One's Own
• To be hoist by one's own petard
• To the world you're just one person
• Jake from State Farm
• Waiting for a sign from one of my kind
• The day we were married the leftover doves from his days of being a magician hummed little love songs in the attic
• The first living beings to see an Earthrise from the Moon were communist turtles.
• Being your own voyeur
• How To Avoid Being Something Other Than What One Is Not
• FTP from my dreams
• Being and Time
• My alternate dream world
• Twelve dreams I had in one night
• The Thirteen Songs From the Red Chamber Dream
• I dreamed of her pulse long before I took it from her
• World of Being
• Thrusting into horse beings from space using a modicum of caution
• Despite being surrounded by perverts, I manage to have a great time
• you were a dream I painted and wished to own
• i dream about the ones who are gone
• The Sex Dreams of the People of the Mid-Atlantic States
• Daylight separates our dreams from our flaws
• Distilled from Dreams
• walk away from time
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Salemo
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
• Good News from the Next World
• World from a vantage
• Every strong wind one leans into and smiles should bring back a lost toy from childhood
• World Dream Bank
• being beaten into an unhealthy state by other people's pasts
• An hour later, I swing my leg over his and we dream of being young
• It takes the profit from 22 towels to pay for one package of copier paper
• Economic and Social Divisions in late 19th-century America
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• Two men look from prison bars. One saw mud and one saw stars.
• From the Earth to the Moon: 6: Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
• Aromatherapy from ancient times
• We don't inherit the World, we borrow it from our children
• Legislation to save us from our own stupidity
• Yet from you only proceeds, kindly ones, comfort and balm.
• All Powers from One Division
• from Brooklyn to Okinawa: letter one
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• i'm a million different people from one day to the next
• You're here to save the world. Unfortunately, you live in a virtual world, detached from reality.
• Exiled from the world below
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• A quote about Russia from the Classic World Of Darkness wiki
• if a bird is never free from his cage, then his world is only his name
• It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren.
• The ritualistic cannibalization of one's own savior is weird
• Buy one gallon of gas at a time
• One Strand at a Time
• Protecting oneself, one protects others. Protecting others, one protects oneself
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• Love forsakes us from time to time, and we forsake love.
• Dreams of Being Eaten Alive
• The dream people were being assholes.
• Arriving as a state of being
• Being the further peregrinations of age in a world of beauty
• on being the only one in a restaurant
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep noding even as one is being devoured by EDB
• On being left-handed, the ocean, God, and more than one toothbrush
• Being In The World
• What I have learned from being fired
• On Being the one who goes away
• Persistent Dreams of Being Inbetween
• the only true religion is the one that lives in the heart of every human being
• When you dream the end of the world, how does it happen?
• Why the American Dream is the rest of the world's nightmare
• A Modest Proposal For Preventing Refugee Children From Being A Burden To The Public
• Haruko's Dream World
• The Message of King Sakis and the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night
• The revolution does not put dreams on trial. Nor does it save us from nightmares.
• The boat dreams from the hill
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• The RIAA's dream world
• Being on your own
• How I found peace staring up at the moon from a gutter in my dreams
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• I like it when I dream of her. It's the only time we get to talk.
• Adapted From a Dream
• Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
• From the window of a car, a cigarette's a falling star, a dream within a trail of smoke
• you've been living in a dream world
• Forgive me for being afraid of the world
• The world has fallen in love with a dream.
• go ahead and dream, go ahead believe that you are the chosen one
• The Terminal Dreams Part One
• Dreams From My Father
• On a scale from one to...
• God won't take the time to sort your ashes from mine
• Lessons learned from World War II
• The Art Of Insulting - Chapter XII- Excerpt from the 1992 World Insulting Championship Final in Brussels (Vassilyevich vs. White)
• DMV Driving Permit Test
• Painting the world of the people to come. Absent but in dreams.
• Part One: We Learn from Each Other
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• If I can stop one heart from breaking
• Second open letter from Saddam Hussein to the peoples of the United States
• The Wild Colonials
• Songs from an American Movie Vol. 2: Good Time For a Bad Attitude
• The world from a Vespa
• One problem with being born really soon after Christmas
• The prequel and background info to the dream state that my life has become since I absconded
• From a dream to a nightmare
• For the Time Being
• What did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?
• From the shower, I nearly saved the world
• A thousand years from now, we should have coffee and tell stories while the world disintegrates
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• Being stoic, Daoist, and at one with the universe is NO FUN
• Things from another world
• The new rulers of the world are being decided upon
• A love poem scrawled from one stranger to another
• One should expect as much from a machine
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured

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