This was a big lesson he wanted to teach his son, that dreams are not always happy and it is better that they aren’t happy. Bad dreams keep you thinking and fighting for the ultimate goal which is survival. It puts you in situations where it may be scary and frightening but hopefully makes you more ready for those certain struggles coming ahead. Dreams are a learning experience and if they were all good or happy, we would never be able to face these struggles and survive like the way we have.Dreams can be like an internal therapist, it helps us work through similar feelings and emotions which eventually reduce the stress when we wake up. Also dreams, once again, are very beneficial due to conflict resolution. As McCarthey describes the effect of dreams on survival through the Man and Boy, bad dreams give you sense of hope as it puts you in similar feelings and emotions as you would go through with the struggle of surviving. It’s a way of experience that one learns by dreaming that gives them the confident to keep the fire