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A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask.
— The X-Files · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker imagines dreams arriving ahead of conscious understanding: an answer appears before its question can be formed. That reversal gives a dream the role of an early insight. Something puzzling now might become meaningful once the dreamer finds words for what they need to ask.
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