Hundreds of Times You Lived This Night

Dreams do suggest what would
Happen if your brain could
In fact control the world,

Which is of some use
As a warning. As William
Dement observed, decades

Ago, it’s a safe form
Of brief insanity
You can rehearse nightly,

Which in turn should remind
You, insanity is
No more than a disease

Of the brain’s self control.
Dreaming is a routine
Spell of dictatorship,

And whatever its true function,
Is also that warning
To you not to believe

That if the world conformed
To your wishes you would
Go anything but mad.

Be glad the world corrects
You brain, resets your games.
Dreams are traps to escape.