Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

While you are inside an experience it is completely convincing. The fear feels permanent, the certainty feels earned, the mood seems like a description of the world rather than a weather pattern passing through you. Much of ordinary life runs the same way, lived from inside a story you cannot see the edges of.

When something feels absolutely true this week, try adding four words to it: right now, it seems. That small hedge does not make the feeling false; it just leaves room for tomorrow to disagree. Then check back in a few days and see what held.