there was a dream and a dreamer for all dreams need dreamers and all dreamers need dreams. And the dream was in colour because life is in colour, only thoughts can be black and white. And the colours were all the colours you would expect because they were images of real colours. And all the people in the dream were real people and looked like real people and spoke like real people. And the places and events looked like real places and seemed based upon real places.
And everything was just as you expect it to be.
Except this wasn’t a human being dreaming. But human beings being dreamed about. And in the dream human beings did all the things they always do and one could ask, how could anyone who was not a human being dream so clearly about being human? But the dreamer wasn’t dreaming about being human, the dreamer was dreaming about all the things it knew, all the things it had seen.
For the dreamer was a zoo animal, and in its dreams were all the things that humans are and all the colours that the world is for the dreams are its only freedom. And in our dreams we may all dream as we please.
And only human beings who cannot dream would not understand.