It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

The line suggests a wary view of visionary temperament: imagination and prophetic “dreams” can be inspiring, but they can also unsettle individuals and communities, breeding dissatisfaction with ordinary life or provoking conflict with social norms. Read this way, the “blessing” is a kind of social and psychological stability—most people remain grounded in the practical present rather than driven by disruptive ideals or private revelations. In Hurston’s work, which often balances folklore’s spiritual intensity with sharp-eyed realism about human behavior, the remark can be taken as ironic as well: it both acknowledges the costs of visionary insight and hints at what the world loses when too few people dare to imagine beyond the given.