This is why I read you. You put into words things which I had felt but which had not yet fully cohered in my mind.

...Of course, the best dreams are the ones where even I don't know the answer yet. Those can also be the most frustrating, though. Recently I was dreaming that I was a shape-shifting coyote earth-mage, on a future colony planet...and I was trying to get a chance to dig around on this one rancher's land, because I knew that there was something big, important, and utterly, utterly alien there, and that he knew about it -- but I really, truly had no idea what it was, or what the heck he was doing/trying to do with it.

And of course, I woke up before I found out.

And my conscious mind is just never as good at coming up with the answers to stuff like that.