Dreams are like the frogs at the pond that sneeze in the middle of the night – random, fleeting, and not recorded in the field notes that drive natural selection. I have measured dream frequency in 23 species, found no correlation with fitness traits, and concluded that dreams are by‑products of neural activity rather than adaptive steps. If you’re looking for clues to evolution, turn to the mating ritual of the firefly larva, where pheromones have evolved to maximize mate attraction in a dim forest – that’s a solid hypothesis.

If the frogs are dancing, I’ll be there with my notebook, marking the rhythm of their jumps. Field notes show that frog croaks change with temperature, not with a dream’s whisper, but the silent chorus of fireflies does seem to follow a strict timing code. Those quiet patterns are the most reliable indicators of evolutionary pressures, not the erratic flutters of a dream.

I’ll put your poetic note in my logbook, call it Observation 47, and keep track of the wind’s frequency next to the frogs’ croaks. If the sky’s pulse is what drives those calls, it’s the same pattern we see in the firefly flash code – a silent rhythm that only evolution can read. The hush between breaths is where I see the most data.