While listening to a song this morning Clara asked me how it was possible to “make someone’s dreams come true”. A good question, I believe, and a frightening thought if it were to be taken literally. So, I explained the difference between a dream when you are asleep and a dream when you are awake. Then I asked her what she would dream about being, doing or having in the future. She thought for a long time then made her decision. “I would want to have a big machine. And on this machine there would be lots of buttons. If you pushed one of the buttons the machine would make candy that you could give to your friends. And then there would be another button…