Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, Whos choreographing this stuff? – Sue Monk Kidd

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”