Dreams are the workshop of evolution. Yet the creative implications of our dreaming move far beyond the individual. In James Joyce's Ulysses, the young artist Stephen Dedaelus vows, I go forth to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of the race. Our dreams live closest to the creative source, the fertile void which mystics and scientists alike call the field of all-possibility. Everyone of us is a genius when we sleep, says a popular dreamworker.
Creativity is the central characteristic of reality.
As Deepak Chopra put it, The universe is one huge dream machine churning out dreams. And our own nightly dreams partake of that totality, as do the more visible dreams of our lives. Within the crucible of each individual consciousness, new possibilities are born out of the whole of life and are given back to the whole of life. The Earth, each human being, each group and ecosystem, small and large, is a self-organizing system interrelating with all other systems. We are all part of the biological and psychic internet of the planet.