All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Kerouac’s line treats dreaming as a universal human condition—an inner life shared across cultures, classes, and borders. By calling us “dream beings,” he suggests that imagination, longing, and unconscious vision are not private eccentricities but fundamental to personhood. The second sentence turns that inward experience into a social bond: even when people are divided by language or circumstance, the fact that everyone dreams implies a deep commonality. In a Kerouac/Beat context, this also resonates with the era’s emphasis on spiritual seeking and expanded consciousness: dreams become a kind of democratic mysticism, a reminder that beneath public identities lies a shared, vulnerable, creative humanity.