“Well, people are afraid to be ignorant,” Mam says. “And they are uncomfortable with the thought that when we enter the deepest levels of a dream, we break free of ourselves. Our society is so fettered to the idea of the individual. Real inspiration comes from outside of ourselves, the communal, that which we don’t know, that which can exist only in dreams. Mozart composed directly from dream states. Kafka wrote exclusively at night. Even the molecular structure of DNA was discovered in a dream.” She throws her hands up in the air as if to say, “What more proof do you need?”