How strengthening your 'emotional intelligence'—the ability to recognize and emotions and express them to others—improves your mental and physical health.
Instead of dreaming, give priority to what is most important at each moment in your life, a new job or project for instance. If this means that a new relationship needs to be be put on hold or a holiday postponed, then so be it.
In The Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman’s son Biff cries out at his father’s funeral, “He had the wrong dreams… He never knew who he was.” Miller, by the way, wrote the play in a shed, which he had built himself, not a bad idea for a guy who needs to escape and indulge in some deep thinking.