When you fall asleep and have a good dream, you eventually wake up from your dream most likely wishing you didn’t have to wake up. Moreover, you hope that dream might one day come true.
Meanwhile, there are the aspirational dreams you have in your mind about the future. Like your dreams while asleep, you may not want to wake up from your aspirational dreams either. Perhaps you feel they’re safer in your mind. Perhaps, that’s where you feel like those dreams won’t be ruined by anyone, including yourself.
Falling and staying asleep on your dreams about your future feels good. It’s easy not to want to “wake up”. However, as this quote by Mae Jemison suggests, that is the surest way for them to never come true. At some point, it’s time to “wake up” by taking those dreams about the future out of your mind where they feel safe and secure and introducing them to reality where there will be risks, challenges, and possible disappointments.
Further Reading: The distance between your dreams and reality is called action