
by Kate Choi
PhilosophyAdded on January 14, 2026
Synopsis: A teenager strikes up a conversation in the government waiting rooms with those waiting to get new life dreams assigned to them.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search "After Dinner Conversation Magazine")★★★
Dreaming Up an Answer.A boy and a man are in a room, waiting. They are waiting to have their dreams reassigned. In walks a lady with red hair. She doesn’t want to come in, but she is pushed in anyway. She loudly proclaims that she doesn’t want her dream reassigned. And the man and boy are instantly interested in her.They tell her that if she is there, then she must have her dream reassigned to a new dream.She doesn’t like their response and she lets them know it. What is she going to do?Four fan
There are some people in a waiting room including a young boy. Apparently they can go through a door and receive a new dream. The boy wants a new dream, an old man wants a dream back and a woman says that she shouldn't be there and does not want a new dream. She says she's been reassigned five times and there's some reference to dreams being stolen. Unfortunately there's no podcast for this episode (apparently) and that leaves a whole lot of questions including what dreams are talking about, wha
Where are a mans fantasies bred, in his heart or in his head- Shakespeare.An interesting morality question. The word dream is used, but is it used correctly? Life's ambition or personal focus, perhaps even avocation would be better. America has around 330 million people, if we used job testing and psychological profiling we could assign people to certain professions. But can you have enough people doing childcare or trash collecting? America is getting unbalanced when it comes to lawyers and med