After the death of the hitchhiker's mother, his scientist father discovers a way to use the device to record human dreams.

In despair, I left the country - to be a writer, my human dream.

As for the animals, no one knows what they make of the human dreams they evidently participate in.

For a moment they dreamed an ancient, human dream.

The intrusion of Arm civilization had ended many human dreams.

His power rests in storytelling; he travels through human dreams.

But such was the fate of human dreams in general.

In the beginning at least, these had been human ideas and human dreams.

We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream.

Three of the main characters come from outer space, but they are all striving to realise very human dreams.