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Alright. I'd like to give this a shot: how you do you define a dream?
Does a dream have to take place in which you visualize yourself in a situation, as if watching yourself on screen, or is it something else?
Do you have to dream about things that exist, and they are presented to you in your dreamscape as you progress? Is talking necessary? Is color necessary?
Maybe everyone dreams, though there could be exceptions; I do remember distinctly that a certain population (around 8%) cannot readily comprehend what is evident in their dreams, and if they were to try to recall it, around half of those questioned would remark of "white space", sometimes rippling, or as it was in a mirage (like on a hot day, you look 30 yards ahead of you, and the air gets fuzzy). I'm not sure if there is an article that restates this study, for it was around 25 years ago when I had first learned this. Given this, I don't know if what was being processed, culled, and/or retained in one's mind during the sleep cycles we go through can be defined as a dream, at least in the sense we know it as an unconscious "animated pocket of intrigue, with people and places we may or may not know".
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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