Fringe, episode 1.17

What is mankind's oldest dream?
World peace?
Oh, hardly. It's a social construct imposed by an awareness of our own mortality.

Apparently the answer is to kill with thought.

Some dreams are best not coming true.

The Hobbit, chapter 2

I think we've all been here:

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

Fragile Things

The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream.