We have all had a dream where we wake up and are confused because we thought our dream actually happened but in reality it did not. Our brain makes us think this because of how real it felt and how much we want to believe that it really happened. Some of us even have dreams that we will make us ponder for hours. We are caught wondering and trying to remember if it actually did happen. In The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin we begin reading a story about a man named George who mixes up his versions of reality through dreaming. Whenever George enters into deep sleep he begins to dream effective dreams which begin to change the real world. Whenever he has an effective dream he is the only one to remember. George begins going to a man named …show more content…
Haber, after realizing that Georges dreams actually do come to life begins to start making George dream things that would benefit him or humanity. One of the first things big things we see Haber make him dream is the plague. Haber tells George to dream about the over population that has started to occur on earth. By doing so George dreams up the plague in order to wipe out a good portion of the human race. Haber tells George that this will benefit everyone and not just himself. After this dream we see George ask himself “No. I never buried anybody. Nobody died of the Plague. There wasn’t any Plague. It’s all in my imagination. I dreamed it.” (70) even George is lost on what is real and what is not anymore because of what he must endure. George does not want to believe this because he is still lost in the past realities which in his case are no longer real. He is stuck not knowing what to believe or think of each reality because there have been so many. “Dreams are incoherent, selfish, irrational—immoral, you said a minute ago.” (14) this is also showing how he is wanting to think that dreams are nothing but instead his dreams are everything. This just adds to his inner conflict because he is being told all these things even though nothing matters because his dreams will just end up changing reality in the end. They will create another new reality in which he won’t want to live. “Who am I to meddle with the way things go?” (14) he does not want to have this power because