What if waking life only evolved in order to go to sleep? What if dreams are the result of the brain dialing into a much more important state of consciousness? What if everything we do in waking life is an intermediary state in order to gather the resources to keep dreaming? What if civilizations and empires have been wasted on the assumption that there is something important to do outside of dreams? What if anything that can be done outside of a dream can be done more meaningfully inside one?