In a contest between “I Have a Dream” and “the advancement of creative dissatisfaction,” we all know which words win. The emotional ones. The ones that speak to a universal human experience: dreaming and yearning for something more.*
gapingvoid

Emotion alerts your cognitive unconscious to the events you need to remember because they contain info that might come in handy in the future and allows everything else you experience to evaporate into the ether as if it had never happened.**
Lisa Cron

Martin Luther King Jr. was about to
tell his audience to “go back to [your] communities as members of
the international association for the advancement of creative dissatisfaction,”*
But he paused, a friend on stage asked him
to tell them about his dream –
The rest is history, and more:
The dream is still alive today.

Our emotions may get us into trouble
at times, leading us down false paths,
But we need them –
Vulcans can only exist in Star Trek’s imagination,
At best they would only be a chaotic species –
We’d struggle making even
simple decisions without them.

Which brings us to the importance of dreams,
And how they play upon our lives,
The emotions they evoke,
Prompting stories we want to explore beyond
the hard facts of life;
Dare to express your dream, then
follow where it leads.^

*gapingvoid’s blog: No Emotion, No Justice;
**Lisa Cron’s Story Or Die;
^Let me know if I can help with dreamwhispering: geoffrey@thinsilence.org.