“I am apt to think that the wisest men dream the most inconsistently. For as the judgment has nothing or very little to do in regulating the circumstances of a dream, it necessarily follows that the more powerful and creative the imagination is, the wilder it runs in that state of unrestrained invention; while those who are unable to wander out of the track of common thinking when awake, never exceed the boundaries of common nature when asleep.”
A mysterious, yet essential, aspect of life; whose meaning is at all times open to the widest interpretation.
We dream to allow the inner life free reign to explore the world, unfettered by the constraints of the physical world. It is the imagination at play.
And it is those that allow for a playful imagination that will probably save the world.
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