With a lack of excitement over the current options, it's natural to dream of a better choice, to envision a more perfect man or woman who could deliver on all the promises of one's particular ideology.
Writing, in one of his favourite analogies, is as natural as dreaming for the prolific King, but turning to him for guidance on plotting may be about as helpful as asking a sleepwalker for directions.
It's as natural as dreaming of playing major league baseball (it is, speech for speech's sake, like baseball, a man's thing).
Skeptics, meanwhile, will point to the arc of the twin tale, which leads as if by natural logic from dream to disillusion: look at Che, they will say, standing on a mountainside and showing his fellow-rebels their destination, which turns out to be a sea of sullen fog.
There is Elias himself, with his wide eyes and the braces on his teeth: a natural punching bag, dreaming of greater strength.
Marett criticized Tylor for an overly intellectual approach, as though primitive men used personal forces as explanatory hypotheses to account for dreams, natural events, and other phenomena.
But it does rule out other people sensibly believing reports of such occurrences, for the events reported are easily (and usually if not necessarily always correctly) given a natural explanation as dreams, which themselves have natural causes.
He repeatedly invokes the pastoral – that green dream of natural tranquillity and social order – only to traumatise it.
On the big picture, Europe's cultural conservatives are right: Mass immigration really has left the Continent more divided than enriched, Islam and liberal democracy have not yet proven natural bedfellows and the dream of a postnational, postpatriotic European Union governed by a benevolent ruling elite looks more like a folly every day.
Elbakyan sees the site as a natural extension of her dream of helping humans share good ideas.
To assume that our DNA RNA cell evolved purely through the process of natural selection is to dream up a "just-so" story no different than any other non-scientific proposal.
