The Solace of Dreams

In an unimaginably distant future we will surely still dream, and our dreams will be both our desires and our experiences of that world reshaped by our dreaming imagination. But will there be new possibilities open to us? Will we have new options, perhaps to record our dreams, to preserve them in some tangible form as images or even as objects? Will our dreams come to co-occupy the world of our waking reality? Perhaps we will be able to hook up with other dreamers and share what we are dreaming. But is this what we would wish for? Dreams as well are ‘a fine and private place’, and we might prefer to keep them as such. Then, as now, most dreams will burn up in the incendiary fires of re-entry into our everyday reality, and we might continue to wish it so. The solace of dreams might be that they remain in their own reality, and their reality is not ours.