Let’s suppose you were able, every night, to dream any dream you wanted to dream. Naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all of your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights you would say, ‘Well, that was pretty great, but now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream that isn’t under control, where something is going to happen to me and I don’t know what that something will be.’ Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further gambles on what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now.
Alan Watts, The Dream Of Life.
