He highly prefers his romantic nightly dreams of fantastic places and beings to the "prosiness of life". He believes his dreams to reveal truths missing from man's waking ideas, regarding the purpose of humans and the universe, primary among these being the truth of beauty as perceived and invented by humans in times past.
He finds solace in dreaming about fantastical places and beings rather than the mundane aspects of life. He believes his dreams reveal profound truths about human existence, including the nature of beauty as understood and shaped by humanity throughout time.