Interesting thinking about the difference between the two. To me the idea of a dream is the sort of “I want to be an astronaut” that people think about when they are young. Something you can imagine achieving. The idea of a vision to me is an idea of what could be – something that you can work toward, but maybe never achieve in your lifetime.
I see both as demanding action – but vision is more about a journey to me and a dream is more about the destination. I’m not sure others will share that idea. Different words with similar meanings can be hard to differentiate, and I am not sure we all think the same about many of them.
Dictionary definitions suggest that vision indicates that you are not happy with how things are – but I don’t see that. I remember we had dictionary practice at primary school. With all the IT I am not sure we do the same these days.
I saw some interesting errors in sub-titles this week. I remember there is one line from “The Longest Day” from Sean Connery where the subtitle reads “Stone a Grouse” rather than “Stone the crows”. At times I wonder how on earth we manage to get something from inside one brain into another brain just by sharing words. I think Dave Gorman agrees.
Anyway, back to dream and vision, I saw a documentary about Bono today. The one repeated theme was a vision of a world where stupid poverty was eliminated. He clearly worked toward a long term aim.
I did a series about the SDGs previously, which are all about a path to a better world. But it seems to me that so many people today want to jump straight to the destination and don’t want to bother with a journey.