May I never wake up from the American dream.

Framed as a wish or prayer, the line treats the “American dream” not as a social program but as a private, almost dreamlike state one hopes to remain inside. It can be read sincerely—as gratitude for opportunity, safety, or prosperity—and also with an undertone of irony, since “waking up” suggests disillusionment with the myths that often surround national narratives of success. The quote’s force comes from that ambiguity: it captures the tension between aspiration and reality, and between collective ideals and individual experience. By casting the dream as something fragile that could end at any moment, it emphasizes both the seductiveness of hope and the fear of losing it.