photo: jetheriot
A collector doesn't make what he collects. A snow globe collector, for example, doesn't make snow globes. The snow globes are already made. The collector just gathers them together in one place, into one collection. A moth collector doesn't make moths; the moths are already made. The collector just captures the elusive creatures and preserves them, pins their wings down perhaps. Maybe each moth ends up in a block of clear acrylic that sits on a table like a snow globe among snow globes.
Dreams are a lot like moths, very moth-like, but harder to pin down. We don't make dreams; we collect them. The dreams are already made. We just capture them in our nets, if we can, like precious insects.