The World of Dreams

On the quiet danger of wishing for what may never be, and learning to live with the distance between imagination and reality.

Alice-Hoberman

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The most absurd thing about being human is the way we dream.

I have never been much of a dreamer. Or perhaps I have simply learned to keep myself from dreaming too much. There is a certain danger in allowing the mind to wander into places that do not exist, to build a world out of things we wish for, and then to return to reality only to discover that none of it was ever ours.

I understand why we dream. The world around us is full of things we long for, things we imagine, things we believe might make our lives a little more beautiful. Dreams give shape to these desires.…