Martin Luther King had a dream. So did our cave-dwelling ancestors. As did our greatest inventors, innovators, revolutionaries, and reformers. So do I. And so do you. We know what our forebears did with theirs. What are we doing with ours?

Dreaming is not just the thing that separates us from the paramecia. Dreams enable us to remember what we learn. They make possible our primary survival mechanism—the ability to imagine the impossible and then go after it. That’s what life is all about for creative people.

• to make the image of an antelope appear on the wall of a cave
• to gather the legends of a land beyond and sail over the horizon to reach it
• to call for and work for a government by the people...
• to wonder what makes a bird capable of flight and build the machine that will do the same
  
• to theorize on the basic building blocks of all matter and find them
• to put a unrinal on display, name it Fountain, and call it art
• to end forever the scourge of the guinea worm
• to dare dream that “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

We’re all creative people. And our dreams inspires us to make our imperfect world a little better. Of course there have been some bad dreams, a few real nightmares. All the more reason for you to realize your dream.

If you’re not realizing your deepest dream, I’d like to suggest that the next time you think of Martin Luther King or any other great dreamer, you tell somebody your dream. That will make it easier to tell someone else. And that will put you one step closer to making your dream come true.

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