“They never did figure out what the purpose of dreams were. People with doctorates in things like Sleep Science posited all kinds of theories, from ideas about subconscious thoughts “bleeding” into the conscious to theories of parallel universes. They did know that we operated better when we dreamt, though. It made us more grounded, more human, the irony being that we could never “dream big,” as they would say. I couldn’t be anything more than what I was programmed to be.”
Micro-fiction by Matt Barker