Freud's theory: Why do we have terrible nightmares if our sleeping mind could instead be imagining an Elysium of pleasantries and amazement? We spend our waking hours tormented by our desires, to be healthy, wealthy, beautiful or wise. We are slaves to our emotions, each day wracked by insatiable lusts. Only in the fantasy of our dreams can these desires be resolved: our body decays in the mirror, we find ourselves lost and alone on the streets, we are naked at the office, our lungs are empty but we cannot gasp for air! Finally, our soul is free from torment, the conflict has been resolved. Our human nature is to be ambitious and to rise towards the heavens. The price we pay is the agony of desire. Enough is never enough. We can only fail totally, or continue onward, and onward, and onward ...